Accident prevention in fisheries

Introduction

The Fisheries sector is a high-risk sector. The incidence rate (i.e. figures corresponding to the number of workers employed in the sector) of fatal accidents is 23.82 compared to the average incidence rate of 1.65. Only the Forestry and logging sector has a slightly higher incidence rate of 24.48. Therefore, the fisheries sector is (almost) the most dangerous sector of the European union (data 2017, EU28) [1]This article will look at typical problems in this sector, describing the reasons and highlighting prevention and control measures.

Definitions and descriptions

This article looks at commercial fishing and leaves out fishing as…