Commercial Fishing Occupational Safety Research Cooperative Agreement
Funds research and engineering work that cuts injuries and deaths in commercial fishing, from vessel design to severe-weather detection.
Commercial fishing is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, and Congress created a dedicated research programme for it. NIOSH runs that programme jointly with the Coast Guard, under a memorandum of understanding the two agencies signed in 2018.
The money funds research to improve the occupational safety of commercial fishing workers: better vessel design, better emergency and survival eq…
Research and engineering work to reduce occupational injuries and deaths in commercial fishing, spanning vessel design, survival and emergency equipment, vessel monitoring and communication systems, de-icing and severe-weather detection technology, and studies of hazard-outcome relationships and safety-method adoption.
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