Fishing Safety Success Stories

Film (Duration in minutes)

22:01 (for all four videos) minutes

Product description

The NIOSH Fishing Safety Success Stories are a growing collection of short videos highlighting the successful implementation of workplace safety recommendations with commercial fishermen to prevent traumatic injuries like fatal falls overboard or machinery entanglement. Each video is 4-6 minutes long and features a commercial fishermen and their crew recounting an incident where a near miss occurred and how the safety equipment or safe practice prevented the injury. The interview footage is interspersed with b-roll emphasizing critical events or components in the story. All four videos to date have been professionally produced by a production company working under contract for the NIOSH. These videos are then uploaded on YouTube and published on the NIOSH website for dissemination.

Aims and objectives

The main message of this series is that adopting safety recommendations and safe work practices aboard commercial fishing vessels can prevent types of long-standing injuries and fatalities among these workers. So far the two main messages have been that personal flotation devices can prevent fall overboard fatalities in a variety of fisheries and that using emergency stop systems on deck machinery can prevent traumatic entanglement injuries.

Commercial Fishermen

Awards

2018 Silver Peer Award, Television, Internet, and Video Association of Washington, DC (Education and Training Category, Under $25,000)

Contact details Editor / Production company

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
315 E. Montgomery Avenue, United States-99207 Spokane, WA
1-509-354-8070 - 1-509-990-5082 tteske@cdc.gov http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/fishing