Port Skills and Safety (PSS), a UK-based professional safety and skills membership organisation for ports, has launched a project aimed at improving safety for fishers using UK ports.
The project, supported by a grant from The Seafarers’ Charity, will ensure that ports take their responsibility for the safety of fishers seriously.
Part of the new fishing port safety project will be to review existing Safety in Ports guidance to ensure they recognise the unique operations undertaken in fishing ports. PSS will be working with fishing ports and fishers to encourage them to share common safety concerns, best practice, and potential future developments.
PSS expects that this project will help ensure that ports do not dismiss safety concerns relating to fishing because of the known risks in the sector.
PSS emphasises that, despite not being able to affect safety at sea for fishers, there is much ports can do, from enforcing safety protocols and PPE policies, to ensuring safe access and egress.
