AMSEA’s Port-Based Safety Training

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• Personal Author:
  Dzugan J
• Description:
  AMSEA has documented mariners who have been helped in an emergency by the training they received through this community-based instructor network. Research by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health has documented that a mariner is one and a half times more likely to survive an emergency at sea if he has taken safety training. Additionally, the majority of instructors teaching marine safety to commercial fishermen in the U.S. have now been trained in AMSEA's Coast Guard-accepted MSIT course. This network would not be possible without the collaboration of a network that includes the Coast Guard, Sea Grant agents, marine equipment suppliers, private trainers, and many others. These partners provide survival gear, expertise, funding, promotion, and facilitate training in many ways. Due in part to these efforts, in the last 20 years the average number of fishing fatalities in Alaska fell from 38 per year to an average of 11. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Disaster Planning Emergencies Hunting Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Emergency Preparedness Fishing Industry Information Dissemination Injury Prevention Marine Workers Risk Management Safety Education Safety Programs Training Grants
• ISSN:
  1547-9676
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Alaska ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  51-54
• Volume:
  67
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20053245
• Citation:
  Proc Mar Saf Secur Counc 2010 Dec; 67(4):51-54
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  Alaska Marine Safety Education Association, Sitka, Alaska
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of the Marine Safety & Security Council
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:656b0de404b09f62ce2486ac0becef9856bcae9d943243ee810767f7808243cb5620a49f03220b3370b8688061b4994799b347df943cf199cd4f27a453d76234
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/216040/cdc_216040_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 419.02 KB ]