Causes of occupational accidents in the fishing sector in Portugal

Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference 2006, ESREL 2006 - Safety and Reliability for Managing Risk

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 741-749

  Antao P ^a   Almeida, T ^a   Jacinto, C ^a,b   Guedes Soares, C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISHERIES; FISHING VESSELS; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; PUBLIC POLICY; RELIABILITY; RISK MANAGEMENT; ECONOMICS;

ACCIDENTS AT WORKS; CORRECTIVE ACTIONS; ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES; EUROPEAN UNIONS; FATAL ACCIDENTS; IN-SITU; INCIDENCE RATES; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENTS; OFFICIAL STATISTICS; PORTUGAL; PREVENTION POLICIES;

ACCIDENTS;

ACCIDENTS AT WORK; CORRECTIVE ACTIONS; ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES; EUROPEAN UNION; IN-SITU; INCIDENCE RATE; NON-FATAL; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OFFICIAL STATISTICS; PORTUGAL; PREVENTION POLICY;

EID: 56249092466     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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