This document summarizes a joint project between authorities and the fishing industry in Norway to improve safety. It describes the objectives of establishing cooperation between these groups, activities conducted so far including workshops, a safety film, and website, and experiences gained. Key activities have been exchanging safety materials, developing a risk assessment tool, coordinating safety campaigns, and initiating new research. Challenges have included organizing the working group and securing funding, but benefits have been building networks and dialogue to promote fishermen safety.

1. Multidisciplinary approach to maritime accidents
Hilde Stange, Senior Adviser
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2. Multidisciplinary approach to maritime accidents
1. Why this joint project?
2. How we got started
3. Who’s attending
4. What we have performed so far
5. The experiences we have gained so far
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3. A great day for
fishing!
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4. or maby not?
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5. It′s cold!!
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6. Wet clothes
are heavy… It seems
hopeless…
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7. soon he will have no
strenght left..
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8. One
small
step… made all the
differense..
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9. Why this joint project?
The authorities and the fishing industry have a common goal:
Avoid occupational injuries and fatalities
among fishermen..
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10. Workshop
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11. Situation Report
Situation Report:
HSE status of the Norwegian fishing fleet,
prepared by SINTEF
– Size of the fishing fleet, number of vessels sorted by its
length and type of fishing operation etc.
– The number of employees in each vessel group
– Accident statistics for the various vessel groups
– The effect of previously completed research projects was
evaluated and the status rapport concluded by
summarizing recommendations on measures to improve
safety in the fishing fleet
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12. Objective 3 Exchange of safety-related material
• Contact has been established with the Danish Fishermen’s Occupational Health Services (Fiskeriets
Arbejdsmiljøråd) in Denmark
• The working group has been given permission to freely use safety-related information materials for
translation and distribution to Norwegian fishermen.
• The working group has considered the relevance and transferability to Norwegian conditions and
performed the translation into Norwegian for some of this material.
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13. Website: Yrkesfisker.no
• Ensure easy access
to HSE tools, safety
regulations,
guidelines, lessons
learned, relevant
news etc.
• Ensure continuity
and relevance for the
fishermen
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14. Risk assessment tool
• An optional service to help getting started with risk assessment...in a
simple and logical way
• Adapted to the various fishery operations
• Predefined work poperations and tasks
• The result:
– Meet the statutory requirement of written risk assessment
– Ensure implementation of preventive measures for hazardous operations
and equipment on board
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18. Joint message
• Coordinated safety campaigns
• Government and industry have a common interest of
investing in health and safety of fishermen
• Distribution of safety-related materiel (safety film,
brochures / fact sheets, advertisements etc.)
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19. Safety film – «Get home safely» («Trygt hjem»)
• The film is about actual accidents
and the powerful stories of those
affected.
Also
• 6 sequences with the following
topics: stability, protection work, Trygt hjem
the reporting of accidents, safety
management system, safety
training and risk assessment
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20. Safety regulations
• The working group has been used as a
consultative forum
• Positive with a close dialogue between
government and the Fishing Industry
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21. Research projects
• Involved in initiating new research projects of relevance to the safety
of fishermen
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22. Other relevant measures
• ..to improve safety in the fishing fleet will be continuously evaluated.
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23. The experiences we have gained so far
• It was time-consuming to get the work group organized and started
• It was a difficult process to apply for financial support for project activities
• It’s essential to have a coordinator to keep the continuity of the work, this requires time
and resources.
• Participants in the working group are doing this work in addition to their regular duties, this
makes it necessary to set out labour-intensive tasks.
• One of the most positive effects of this cooperation has been the network building
between partners in the fishing industry and government
• There has been a good dialogue and a willingness to co-operate which will have positive
effects in other contexts where teamwork between these partners is important
• From a safety perspective it is important that the fishermen themselves are involved in
projects and activities to promote safety, in order to achieve a successful implementation
of the accident prevention measures
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24. Sjøsikkerhetskonferansen
2012
Haugesund 26.-27.september
Landets viktigste konferanse om
sjøsikkerhet
Velkommen!
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