INVESTIGATION ON OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES IN THE JAPANESE FISHING INDUSTRY

Kodai Kitagawa

《IETI Transactions on Ergonomics and Safety》 6卷2期 (2022/12) Pp. 31-38

https://doi.org/10.6722/TES.202212_6(2).0004

摘要

The fishing industry is important for food and economics in various countries. However, many workers in the fishing industry experienced occupational injuries such as work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Thus, situations and causes of occupational injuries in the fishing industry should be investigated for preventing these injuries. The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has been publishing case reports of occupational injuries in various fields including the fishing industry. Investigation of these case reports will contribute the prevention of occupational health; however, it is difficult to evaluate these case reports since these reports consist of many text data with sentences. The text mining technique is an effective method to investigate many texts. Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate case reports of occupational injuries in the Japanese fishing industry using the text mining technique. In this study, a total of 117 case reports of severe occupational injury that required more than 4 days of recuperation in 2017 were investigated by text mining technique. The results showed several causes of occupational injuries such as loss of balance, slipping on the ship, and hand or finger caught. These results indicate that improvements in environments or strategies related to balance, slip, and operation using hands should be considered for preventing occupational injuries in the fishing industry.

關鍵字

Occupational injury ； fishing industry ； case reports ； text mining technique