About us
FishSAFE is a committed fishing industry led,
industry/government partnership with the aim of developing strategies to
improve the safety performance of the New Zealand commercial fishing sector –
in other words, to stop fishermen injuring themselves.
Membership of FishSAFE is open to all individual
fishermen and representative organisations, as well as government agencies with
an interest in health and safety in the commercial fishing industry. The current Chairman of FishSAFE is Peter
Dawson from the NZ Federation of Commercial Fishermen. The
current active membership includes representatives from the following
organisations:
NZ Federation of Commercial Fishermen
New Zealand Fishing Vessel Owners Association
Greymouth Fishermen's Association
Port Nelson Fishermen's Association
New Zealand Fishing Industry Guild
Tuna New Zealand
New Zealand Seafood Industry Council
New Zealand Rock Lobster Industry Council
Sanford Ltd
Talleys
Sealord Group Ltd
New Zealand School of Fisheries
Seafood Industry Training Organisation
Accident Compensation Corporation
Maritime New Zealand
FishSAFE was formed in 2004, following the work of
FishGroup, a Maritime NZ convened group focussed on identifying the causes of
work-related near misses, injuries, and fatalities. The work was successfully
completed in 2003 and a final report produced which made a series of 46
recommendations in the areas of communications and safety awareness,
streamlining of compliance, training and development, human factors, and
design, construction and equipment.
The key recommendation among these was the formation
of an on-going industry-led body that focused on the promotion of safety within
the fishing industry. The aim was to improve safety outcomes within the
commercial fishing industry by developing and supporting industry and
government partnerships, and facilitating industry led initiatives. This body
was given oversight of the implementation of the recommendations contained in
the final report, and became known as FishSAFE.
FishSAFE priorities to date have been the
development of the Safety Guidelines for Small Commercial Fishing Vessels,
and the development of associated injury prevention training. The target
audience are the owners, operators and crew of fishing vessels under 24 metres
in length. This is because that category of vessel makes up the large majority
of the New Zealand fishing fleet in terms of both vessel numbers and people
employed.
FishSAFE holds meetings periodically and the
minutes of these can be found here.
FishSAFE
FishSAFE Meeting 8 May 2006
FishSAFE Meeting 29 Nov 2005
FishSAFE Meeting 15 Nov 2005
FishSAFE Meeting 3 May 2005