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Despite its industry’s importance and its impact on its community, commercial fishing did not receive much attention from the researchers. Little is understood about accident causations and safety issues among fishermen and their vessels. The paper’ objective was to develop a conceptual framework based on accident analysis models and safety issues, adapted to commercial fishing activities. In this paper, Haddon matrix was used to conceptualize a “man overboard” accident which represents the primary cause of death among marine fisheries’ workers in Canada. This reflective paper attempts to address the complex context of safety issues in the commercial fishing industry by providing a conceptual framework. This study highlights the need of a better understanding of accidental events and safety issues, hence also encouraging fellow researchers to investigate and explore further into health and safety domains.
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Tremblay, M., Lavallière, M., Pelletier, J., Bergeron, D., Dufresne Dubé, V., Fecteau, R. (2021). Health and Safety Among Commercial Marine Fisheries in Québec: Navigating Through Haddon Matrix to Better Understand Accidents Causation. In: Black, N.L., Neumann, W.P., Noy, I. (eds) Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021). IEA 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 222. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74611-7_30
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