Professional culture and risk perception: Coping with danger on board small fishing boats and offshore service vessels

Bye, Rolf Johan; Lamvik, Gunnar Martin

doi:10.1016/j.ress.2007.03.024

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“…Research suggests a weak link between the formal SMSs and the seafarers' informal ideals of work (Bye and Lamvik 2007;Antonsen 2009;Knudsen 2009;Bhattacharya 2012;Kongsvik, Antonsen, and Størkersen 2014;Lappalainen, Kuronen, and Tapaninen 2014;Vandeskog 2015). The ideals of good seamanship entail 'a blend of professional knowledge, professional pride, and experienced-based common sense' (Knudsen 2009, 295).…”

Section: Earlier Research On Regulation and Safetymentioning

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One size fits all? Safety management regulation of ship accidents and personal injuries

Størkersen

Antonsen

Kongsvik

2016

Journal of Risk Research

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Safety management regulation is an important supplement to market forces to establish a sufficient safety level in high-risk industries. The accident statistics in Norwegian maritime passenger transportation display a paradox: personal injuries have decreased while ship accidents have increased in the period during which safety management has been regulated (the International Safety Management Code was effectuated in the late 1990s). We interview regulators, shipping company management, and crewmembers about their practices and opinions regarding safety management regulation and use these data to explore how this regulation influences safety management practices to prevent different types of accidents. This study underlines earlier research showing that regulation serves to 'raise the bar' by heightening the industry levels of safety investments and organizational safety awareness. In addition, our results suggest that safety management regulation in maritime transportation is mostly effective for preventing personal injuries in cases in which the personal have sufficient time and resources available, and the procedures are consistent with seafarers' professional values. For ship accidents, such as groundings, other causal factors come into play. We find that the negative consequences of regulation (proceduralization) in particular influence the performance of safety-critical tasks, such as navigation. This may explain why personal injuries have decreased while ship accident frequencies have continued to increase in spite of the regulations aimed at improving safety.

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Section: Earlier Research On Regulation and Safetymentioning

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One size fits all? Safety management regulation of ship accidents and personal injuries

Størkersen

Antonsen

Kongsvik

2016

Journal of Risk Research

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“…Bye and Lamvick surveyed 487 employees and interviewed 45 subjects from fishing and other vessels in Norway to determine the relationship of risk perception to countermeasures [24].…”

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“…-Rolf Bye and Gunnar M. Lamvick, 2007 [24] In 2009, Turner et al evaluated PFD acceptance in Great Britain (including among fishers) with an aim to increase PFD usage by recreational boaters. The highest PFD use was among kayakers.…”

Section: Personal Protective Equipment: Personal Flotation Devices Anmentioning

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“…The four stages leading to death after a FOB in cold Alaska waters are as follows: cold shock → swimming failure → hypothermia → post-recue collapse [48]. Regarding swimming ability, Bye and Lamvick referred to a 2004 study in which 13% of fishers did not know how to swim [24]. In British Columbia, Brooks et al found swimming failure was the underlying cause of 5.4% of 128 drownings of commercial fishers over the 1976-2002 period [49], and Marshall et al found from self-reports of 215 North Carolina fishers in their study that 3.3% did not know how to swim and 31.2% had little to adequate swimming ability [22].…”

Section: Personal Protective Equipment: Personal Flotation Devices Anmentioning

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Gulf of Mexico Seafood Harvesters: Part 3. Potential Occupational Risk Reduction Measures

Myers

Durborow

Kane

2018

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1. Background: Fishers face many occupational hazards that include a high risk of fatal and nonfatal injuries and a variety of adverse health effects. Our purpose is to provide an overview of potential countermeasures for the control of hazards that threaten the health and safety of Gulf of Mexico (GoM) fish harvesters. 2. Method: Search terms were used to identify relevant literature; two previous reviews regarding injuries and health risk factors also inform this review. 3. Results: Countermeasures against these hazards include winch guards, lifting devices, job redesign, non-slip decks and vessel stability controls as well as using personal flotation devices, wearing gloves and high-friction footwear, increasing sleep time and using vessel motion to assist lifting. Knowledge about secondary prevention (such as rescue, first aid and making mayday calls) is also important. Learning through experience is a crucial factor that incorporates other fishers' experiences with innovations. Fatigue and lack of sleep contribute to vessel disasters and injury-related errors. 4. Conclusions: The prevention of injuries and diseases among GoM fishers depends on a combination of focusing on work-processes, instilling a broader safety culture, engineering controls, identifying and sharing fisher innovations, promoting fall overboard prevention and protection and providing culture-based incentives, training and narrative outreach.

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“…More recent studies point to a high tolerance of risk and under-communication of danger in fisheries (Broch 2006, Bye and Lamvik 2007, Binkley 1995, as well as a high level of job satisfaction amongst fishers (Johnsen and Vik 2008, Thorvaldsen et al 2016, Lund 2016. Moreover, recent research on health, environment and safety (HSE) in the Norwegian fisheries has focused mainly on accidents, and not as much on the Fig.…”

Section: Occupational Health In the Fishing Occupationmentioning

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Governing the fisher body – safety as body-politics and fisheries governance

2017

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Body Mass Index (BMI) is not only the prevailing tool used for defining and diagnosing obesity, but it is also a tool that intervenes into fisheries governance, and into fishers' lives and bodies. All fishers on board vessels over 100 gross tons (GT) must hold a seaman's licence; too high a BMI may lead to a "loss-of-licence" and the inability to undertake their occupation. From a governmentality perspective, this paper discusses the use of the seaman's licence and explores how BMI may be an instrument in fisheries governance. We examine how safety policies link to storylines around health and obesity to produce healthy and safe fishers, and how this in turn links to the overall objective of governmentality: to produce productive labourers (fishers). We explore the multiple materialities of the BMI by looking at Norwegian fisheries' safety policies from a Foucauldian perspective and question the wider implications of a safety policy focused on BMI and obesity.

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Professional culture and risk perception: Coping with danger on board small fishing boats and offshore service vessels

Cited by 59 publications

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One size fits all? Safety management regulation of ship accidents and personal injuries

One size fits all? Safety management regulation of ship accidents and personal injuries

Gulf of Mexico Seafood Harvesters: Part 3. Potential Occupational Risk Reduction Measures

Governing the fisher body – safety as body-politics and fisheries governance

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