Fishermen Led Injury Prevention Program (FLIPP) & Fisherman First Aid and Safety Training (FFAST)
The Fisherman Led Injury Prevention Program (FLIPP) is an innovative project that includes commercial fishermen, researchers, extension agents, and coastal community members. These partners are directly involved in the design of the project, collecting data, testing injury prevention strategies, and implementing ongoing training programs using those results. This participatory research program, which includes commercial fishermen, occupational safety researchers, extension agents and coastal community members has addressed research topics ranging from non-fatal injury prevention, improving ergonomics in the commercial fishing workplace, and promoting use of personal flotation device. Fishermen’s First Aid and Safety Training program, which was created in response to community input, is an innovative training program based on wilderness medicine principles to address the needs of commercial fishermen who work in remote and austere conditions. The training directly relies upon the results of a understand non-fatal injuries in the West Coast commercial Dungeness crab fishery, and has been adapted by partners in Alaska, Washington, California, New England. Partners in Georgia are in the initial stages of adapting FFAST for commercial fishermen in the U.S. Southeast.
In collaboration with California Sea Grant, Washington Sea Grant, and Georgia Sea Grant.