Giving Safety A Competitive Advantage: Increasing PFD Use Among Lobster Fishermen

赋予安全竞争优势：增加龙虾渔民对 PFD 的使用

• 批准号: 9007163
• 负责人: Julie Ann Sorensen
• 金额: $ 43.27万
• 依托单位: MARY IMOGENE BASSETT HOSPITAL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-01 至 2020-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9007163
• 关键词: Giving; Safety; Competitive; Advantage; Increasing

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term objective of this proposal is to increase personal floatation device (PFD) use, prevent falls overboard (FOB) fatalities, and to develop better recovery devices and practices in commercial fisheries [NORA Intermediate Goal 8.2]. In particular, we seek to increase the use of PFDs in the Northeast commercial fishing industry by 50% within the next ten years. Although ambitious, we believe it is possible to achieve this objective by testing the utility of a social marketing framework to improve commercial fishermen's PFD experience. Lobster fishermen will serve as the campaign target, as FOBs account for the largest proportion of lobster fishing deaths in the Northeast. However, the activities outlined in the research proposal will positively impact other commercial fisheries, as well. Our Specific Aims include: Aim #1-Identify PFD designs that are commercially available, not well known and which have demonstrated comfort and workability by conducting a trial of PFD designs in lobstering ports in MA and ME. Information will be used to explore PFD improvements such as opportunities for increasing comfort or adding components that make work easier. This information will be shared with PFD manufacturers to foster PFD improvements. Aim #2-Assess the viability of using accelerometers as an objective measure of PFD use in the lobster fishing community. If accelerometers can reliably track the use of PFDs, these will be used to validate self-reported PFD use in the final intervention evaluation. Aim #3- Launch a social marketing campaign in MA (which has been randomly selected to receive the marketing intervention). This campaign will seek to address major barriers to PFD use by addressing social norms, PFD comfort, PFD cost and accessibility. Aim #4- Evaluate the impact of the initiative using a randomized controlled trial with MA and ME lobster fishermen. This trial will compare baseline and follow-up Stage of Change scores in control (ME) and treatment groups (MA), to evaluate the impact of the social marketing intervention on PFD purchase and use. Efforts to identify promising dissemination channels will also be undertaken. Upon completion of these aims, researchers will have examined the viability of this approach for increasing worker adoption of safety technology. These activities are relevant to NIOSH's mission in that they seek to reduce the occurrence of work-related deaths in one of the most dangerous industries in the U.S. Additionally, the proposed research activities will allow researchers to evaluate and identify best practices for increasing worker adoption of safety technologies and practices. In particular, the proposed intervention will provide an opportunity to evaluate the utility of using a marketing approach for increasing worker interest in safety devices or behaviors. Lastly, the use and evaluation of accelerometers as a means for validating self-reported use of safety technology and the exploration of promising safety innovation diffusion channels, will inform future intervention efforts seeking to disseminate and evaluate the use of safety innovations.

 描述（由申请人提供）：该提案的长期目标是增加个人漂浮装置（PFD）的使用，防止落水（FOB）死亡，并在商业渔业中开发更好的恢复装置和实践[NORA中期目标8.2 ] 特别是，我们力求在未来十年内将 PFD 在东北商业渔业中的使用量增加 50%，尽管我们雄心勃勃，但我们相信通过测试其效用可以实现这一目标。改善商业渔民 PFD 体验的社会营销框架 将作为活动目标，因为FOB 在东北部龙虾捕捞死亡中所占比例最大。然而，研究提案中概述的活动将对其他商业渔业产生积极影响。 , 我们的具体目标还包括： 目标#1 - 通过在马萨诸塞州和缅因州的龙虾港口进行 PFD 设计试验，确定市售的、不为人所知的、已证明舒适性和可操作性的 PFD 设计。探索 PFD 改进，例如提高舒适度或添加使工作更轻松的组件的机会。该信息将与 PFD 制造商共享，以促进 PFD 改进，评估使用加速度计作为客观衡量标准的可行性。龙虾捕捞社区中的 PFD 使用情况。如果加速度计能够可靠地跟踪 PFD 的使用情况，这些将用于在最终干预评估中验证自我报告的 PFD 使用情况。随机选择接受营销干预）。该活动将寻求通过解决社会规范、PFD 舒适度、PFD 成本和可及性来解决 PFD 使用的主要障碍 - 使用随机对照试验评估该计划的影响。该试验将比较对照组 (ME) 和治疗组 (MA) 的基线和后续变化阶段分数，以评估社会营销干预对 PFD 购买和使用的影响。完成这些目标后，研究人员将研究这种方法在增加工人采用安全技术方面的可行性。这些活动与 NIOSH 的使命相关，因为他们力求减少与工作相关的事故的发生。死亡于其中之一此外，拟议的研究活动将使研究人员能够评估和确定增加工人采用安全技术和实践的最佳实践，特别是，拟议的干预措施将提供一个机会 评估使用营销方法来提高工人对安全装置的兴趣的效用 最后，使用和评估加速度计作为验证安全技术自我报告使用的手段以及探索有前景的安全创新扩散渠道，将为寻求传播和评估安全创新使用的未来干预工作提供信息。