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The Industrial Fishing Activities Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Slips
- trips and falls
- Equipment malfunction
- 2. Loading Fishing Gear
- Manual handling injuries
- Equipment failure
- 3. Departure to Fishing Grounds
- Collisions
- Sea-sickness
- 4. Deploying Fishing Gear
- Entanglement in gear
- Drowning
- Forced movements of the boat
- 5. Monitoring Fishing Gear
- Monotonous tasks
- Noise
- Cold exposure
- 6. Hauling Fishing Gear
- Caught in moving parts
- Falling object
- Slips
- trips
- and falls
- 7. Processing Catch
- Cuts and lacerations
- Exposure to chemicals
- 8. Storing Catch
- Manual Handling Injuries
- Cold Exposure
- 9. Cleaning and Maintaining Fishing Gear
- Mechanical injury
- Eye injury from projectiles
- 10. Navigating Back to Port
- Fatigue
- Collisions
- 11. Offloading Catch
- Manual handling injuries
- Falls from height
- 12. Cleaning Vessel
- Exposure to cleaning chemicals
- Slips
- trips
- and falls
- 13. Maintenance of Vessel
- Working at height
- Mechanical injuries
- 14. Disposing Waste Material
- Biological hazards
- Manual handling injuries
- 15. Debriefing and Documentation
- Repetitive strain injuries
- Visual stress