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What’s stopping you from protecting yourself and your mates? Identifying barriers to the adoption of safe work practises in the small-scale wild catch commercial fishing industry
Project number:
2017-046
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$321,720.00
Principal Investigator:
Kate J. Brooks
Organisation:
KAL Analysis
Project start/end date:
5 Oct 2017
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29 Sep 2020
Contact:
FRDC
High rates of work related injury and illness exist within Australia's commercial fishing industry, compared to other primary industries. A large proportion of current WHS approaches appear to be either underutilised or ineffective in reducing work related injury and illness frequency rates. The wild catch sector has identified a need to explore how to affect cultural shifts that increase the adoption of behaviours that create safe work environments and improve outcomes for the industry. Opportunities exist to learn from fisheries that are in the process of, or have adopted improved and positive WHS attitudes and behaviours, and to identify how they may be successfully shared with other fisheries.
Fishing industry representatives identify the desirability of simultaneously generating positive WHS outcomes while undertaking research. It is clearly recognised that the industry is averse to strengthening regulatory and compliance requirements, but seek the identification of behaviours and psychological factors that underpin established, or potential improvements in safety culture and behaviours, with a view to improving WHS outcomes. Given sensitivities to WHS regulatory recriminations, it is also a clear requirement and undertaking of this research to respect the anonymity of research participants in the data, and to protect them from any direct negative regulatory actions as a result of their participation in the research.
A need has also been identified to develop a set of principles, that may be promulgated nationally and utilised by industry to improve WHS outcomes, with the benefit of potentially minimising regulatory impositions.
It is also acknowledged that opportunities exit to improve WHS outcomes in the aquaculture and retail sectors. While the wild catch is the focus of this project, it will seek to identify any knowledge that may also by applicable to and utilised by these other sectors.
1. To generate knowledge to foster a stronger safety culture in the wild catch commercial fishing industry, and identify relevant recommendations also applicable to the aquaculture and retail sectors.
2. Identify the barriers (environmental, behavioural, psychological, regulatory, and market based) to adoption and implementation of safe work practises.
3. Identify the specific factors contributing to improvements in industry safety culture.
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2017-091
PROJECT STATUS:
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ORGANISATION:
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PROJECT STATUS:
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ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
PROJECT NUMBER
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2017-012
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
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ORGANISATION:
University of the Sunshine Coast (USC)
PROJECT NUMBER
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2016-177
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Phase 2: Traceability Systems for Wild Caught Lobster, via Sense-T and Pathways to Market
This document is the final report of the project (FRDC 2016-177) ‘Traceability Systems for Wild Caught Lobsters’. It has been prepared by researchers from University of Tasmania.
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The project ‘Traceability Systems for Wild Caught Lobster, via Sense-T and Pathways...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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