scholarly journals Occupational Health and Safety in the New Zealand Fishing Industry: Preliminary Finding of the Key Issues

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Hayman ◽  
Danae Anderson ◽  
Felicity Lamm
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Preliminary Finding ◽  
Commercial Fishing ◽  
Fishing Industry ◽  
Diverse Workforce ◽  
Fishing Vessels ◽  
Fishing Sector

In 2008 there were approximately 3,500 registered commercial fishing vessels in New Zealand and 2,500 full­time employees working in the industry, a fraction of New Zealand’s two million plus labour force. However, in the Maritime New Zealand’s Annual Report 2000­2001 it was reported that New Zealand’s commercial fishing sector represented a disproportionately high number of maritime fatalities. With the exception of the 2007 fatality figures, the rate of Maritime New Zealand reported fatalities and accidents within the commercial fishing sector have remained fairly static. As a result, there have been a variety of initiatives implemented in this hazardous industry, for example, FishSAFE, and a number of reviews undertaken. However, unlike other sectors, implementing OHS interventions in the fishing industry has to account for a number of unique features such as the employment strata, geographical isolation of job, precariousness of employment, increasingly a diverse workforce and social issues such as substance abuse, and. This paper reports on preliminary findings based on interview data of employers and employees in the New Zealand fishing industry. In particular, it exposes a number of barriers to implementing and maintaining OHS measures, for example, increasingly tight profit margins, time pressures, and confusion around regulatory requirements. The initial findings also indicate that the command and control structure of managing staff in the fishing industry can influence individual and group perception and acceptance of risk. Finally, the paper highlights areas requiring further investigation.

scholarly journals OH&S Small and Medium-Size Enterprises and the Issue of Cultural Diversity: Ongoing Research in the Construction Industry

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophe Martin ◽  
Melchior Pelleterat de Borde ◽  
Franck Guarnieri ◽  
Felicity Lamm
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Diverse Workforce ◽  
Migrant Labour

This paper reports on the findings from stage one of a collaborative New Zealand and French research project on the construction industry and in particular the link between occupational health and safety (OHS), subcontracting and cultural diversity. The construction sector in France, New Zealand and elsewhere has not only one of the highest injury, illness and fatality rates but the sector also has a prevalence of small subcontracting firms and a substantial migrant labour force (CNAM, 2008; Department of Labour, 2009). The practice of outsourcing in this industry has created a complex web of sub­contracting with an international dimension and resultant confusion over regulatory responsibilities for the health and safety of workers. Thus, those in the industry are grappling with challenges of managing a culturally diverse workforce within a hazardous working environment. Hiring poorly paid migrant labours in the construction industry, however, is not a recent phenomenon in either France or New Zealand. This in turn has created a melting pot where diversity can be both an advantage and a weaknesses in terms of safety. One the on hand the enormous variability of demographic and social status (Jounin, 2009) and cultures (a term which here encompass personal, collective and professional elements) can lead to dissonance on construction site and yet on the other hand diversity can stimulate innovative ways of implementing safety measures more effectively (Mearns and Yule, 2009). Given that the international subcontracting process and migrant labour are central to the construction industry, the aim of this qualitative research is to identify and explain the sources of OHS failure and suggest adjustments that need to be made.

No fear of bankruptcy: the innate self-subsidizing forces in recreational fishing

2019 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
pp. 2304-2307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alf Ring Kleiven ◽  
Even Moland ◽  
U Rashid Sumaila
Keyword(s):  
Fishing Effort ◽  
The Self ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Recreational Fishing ◽  
Commercial Fishing ◽  
Fishing Industry ◽  
Fishing Sector ◽  
Local Residents

Abstract Recreational fishing, by both local residents and tourists, is a popular activity globally. The behaviour and motivation of recreational fishers is different from those of commercial fishers. Unlike the latter, the former are not dependent on making profits to continue fishing. Rather, the value of recreational fishing to those who engage in it is a combination of catches and experience values. The latter value implies that recreational fishers might continue fishing when they should not, analogous to the effect of subsidy in the commercial fishing sector. Hence, the term “self-subsidizing”: a fishery as one in which fishers subsidize themselves through an economic investment in gear and time from their non-fishery-based earnings. The consequence of which is that recreational fishers can continue fishing long after the commercial fishing industry has stopped fishing because their operations have become economically unviable. There is reason to argue that in many areas, recreational fishing effort, due to the self-subsidizing mechanism, is sustained at a high rate while stocks decrease. In this contribution, we describe the innate self-subsidizing forces in recreational fishing and discuss their implications.

scholarly journals Progress in designing and delivering effective fishing industry-science data collection in the UK

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Mangi
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Commercial Fishing ◽  
Fishing Industry ◽  
Science Data ◽  
Fishing Vessels ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right

This study was undertaken to address the increasing need for a strategic approach to industry–science data collections in the face of reducing resources and growing need for evidence in fisheries management. The aim was to evaluate progress in the development of plans and procedures that can be employed to collect, record and use fishing industry knowledge and data in the evidence base for managing fisheries. This was achieved by reviewing industry‐led data initiatives already undertaken or ongoing within the United Kingdom to document how these projects have/are incorporating fishing industry data into the process of management decision‐making; canvassing stakeholder opinion on data gaps and whether these could be filled by data gathered by commercial fishing vessels; establishing what issues might prevent or stimulate commercial fishing vessels in collecting data when they have the opportunity; and describing guidance on a step‐by‐step process for gathering scientific information such that fishers are empowered to collect the right data, at the right times and in the right format for their fishery. Given recent advances in the collection, interpretation and application of fisheries‐dependent data, we compare progress made in the UK to other areas of the world. We conclude that there is considerable evidence of a paradigm shift from the conventional practice of scientists asking fishers to provide data for scientific analyses towards full engagement of key stakeholders in data collection.

Migrant Labour and the Politics of Immobilisation: Cambodian Fishermen in Thailand

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 915-932 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annuska Derks
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Fishing Industry ◽  
Migrant Labour ◽  
Fishing Vessels ◽  
Fishing Sector ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Different Levels

AbstractCambodian migrant workers in the Thai fishing industry are increasingly portrayed as the new ‘victims of trafficking’ and as ‘sea slaves’ who are ‘forced to fish,’ but are at the same time considered to be unruly and mobile workers who squander their earnings. Instead of being a result of separate migration streams or distinct groups of migrants, this article shows that these contradictions are inherent to the processes in which essentially mobile workers are immobilised at the place of destination. These immobilisation processes take place at different levels and should be understood in relation to the specificities of work in the fishing sector in general as well as the particular (migrant) labour system that has developed in certain sectors of the Thai labour market, leading to the creation of a flexible, disposable workforce that is bound to the work on Thai fishing vessels.

scholarly journals Seabird and Marine Mammal Bycatch Reduction Through Fishing Industry Funded Research: The New Zealand Conservation Services Levy Program

1999 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
West Ian F. ◽  
Janic Molloy ◽  
Michael F. Donoghue ◽  
Chris Pugsley
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Marine Mammals ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Commercial Fishing ◽  
Fishing Industry ◽  
Protected Species ◽  
The Status ◽  
Extensive Consultation ◽  
By Catch ◽  
Marine Wildlife

Since 1995 the New Zealand government has implemented a scheme to recover from the domestic commercial fishing industry the funding required to investigate and mitigate the impacts of fishing on protected species of marine wildlife. Conservation Services Levies are approved by the Minister of Conservation, administered by the Department of Conservation (DOC), and are collected by the Ministry of Fisheries. The levies are set annually following extensive consultation between the relevant government agencies and stakeholder groups. Levies are primarily used to boost observer coverage in selected fisheries, to monitor the status of protected species known to be incidentally taken in fishing operations, and to develop ways of mitigating the by-catch of species protected under the New Zealand Marine Mammals Protection Act 1978 and the Wildlife Act 1953. Conservation Services Levies provide a rare example in the global fishing industry of a transparent and accountable process, requiring the industry to pay at least part of the true environmental costs of its operation. It would be premature to suggest that the introduction of these levies has achieved a resolution of the various interactions between commercial fisheries and protected species of marine wildlife.

Commercial Fishing: Has Technology Made the Industry Safe...Enough?

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
Kyra M. Dwyer ◽  
R.J. Burns
Keyword(s):  
Complex Nature ◽  
Commercial Fishing ◽  
Fishing Industry ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Safety Equipment ◽  
Fishing Vessel ◽  
Fishing Vessels ◽  
Shared Goal ◽  
Available Technology ◽  
Difficult Challenge

The Fishing Vessel Safety Act, signed into law on September 9, 1988, was the first comprehensive legislation to be enacted in this country with the goal of reducing industry fatality rates. Paramount in the new regulations were provisions for the mandatory carriage of safety equipment aboard all commercial fishing vessels, depending on the vessel's route, size, and build date. The introduction of this technology had a measurable impact on reducing both vessel losses and fatalities, but the downward trends seen within the first ten years of the Act's enactment have since leveled off and are holding steady at what remains unacceptably high rates in comparison to other industries. This article argues that human and economic factors are limiting the effectiveness of available technology and contributing to this statistical plateau. Specific examples of these factors are provided, and possible solutions examined in the context of fishing vessel casualties and safety enforcement. Additionally, this article examines the roles of industry members and regulators as they work towards the shared goal of realizing a safe commercial fishing industry. However, inherent in this goal is realizing when these objectives have been achieved—and, given the complex nature of fishing vessel casualties, this realization may be the most difficult challenge of all.

The Impact of Organisational, Social Environmental and Job Content Stressors on the Work Related Strains of Probation Officers

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare O'donnell ◽  
Christine Stephens
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Workplace Stress ◽  
Probation Officers ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
Work Stressors ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Job Content ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

In recent years workplace stress has been seen as an important occupational health and safety problem and probation officers in New Zealand have been identified as suffering from increasing perceptions of stress. Accordingly, the present study was undertaken with a sample of 50 New Zealand Probation Officers in three offices to examine the relationship of individual, organisational and work stressors with work related strains. It was predicted that work stressors would be positively related to strains and that individual differences (e.g., age or gender) would have a moderating effect on the relationship between stressors and strains. The results showed that stressors caused by organisational problems, such as role boundary and overload, were related to strains, more strongly than job content problems, such as difficult clients. Secondly, age may have a curvilinear relationship to strains. Thirdly, the office, or place of work, moderates the stressor strain relationship.

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