# Development and Testing a Field-based Hazard/Near-Miss Sharing System for Commercial Fishing Vessels

> **NIH ALLCDC U01** · AMERICAN BUREAU OF SHIPPING · 2021 · $460,141

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
This project will design, build and roll out a field-based near miss and lessons learned sharing
system that can achieve broad adoption in the commercial fishing industry. Comparing to existing
reporting systems which focus on serious reportable marine casualties, this new system aims at
collecting hazard and near-miss data across the industry. The data will be submitted anonymously
to an independent, non-regulatory organization for further analyses and dissemination. The
project results will focus on how to effectively collect the data, analyze the data, and communicate
key lessons learned and summary information directly to commercial fishing vessel
captains/crews to improve their safety awareness.
The project objective is to help address critical information gaps about commercial fishing safety
and create better informed safety programs and interventions for captains/crews across the
industry. The project team will research existing near-miss/hazard reporting systems and perform
needs assessment by meeting with potential users in the commercial fishing industry. Then, an
incident/near-miss/hazard taxonomy will be developed to structure data collection. The project
team will develop a data collection process and identify the requirements to administer data
collection, quality assurance, quality control, and dissemination. The team will develop a mobile
application and a web application, which the team will develop and test following a standard
software development lifecycle. Once completed, the sharing system will be hosted by an
independent, non-regulatory organization and made available on public mobile app stores (for the
mobile application) for access by commercial fishermen. A project analysis will evaluate roll-out
success, adoption, usage experience, and value of usage. The project team will test the value of
the data collection over time, through a set of output and outcome measures.
Specific project outputs will be:
• The incident/near-miss/hazard taxonomy that will provide the foundation on which fishermen
 will report and categorize shared submissions
• A mobile application for submitting incidents, near-misses, and hazards (lessons learned)
• A web application for the analysis and visualization of submitted records
• Collected and analyzed anonymous data for safety training, awareness, and research efforts

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10331572
- **Project number:** 1U01OH012288-01
- **Recipient organization:** AMERICAN BUREAU OF SHIPPING
- **Principal Investigator:** Kevin P McSweeney
- **Activity code:** U01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** ALLCDC
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $460,141
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2021-09-01 → 2024-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10331572

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10331572, Development and Testing a Field-based Hazard/Near-Miss Sharing System for Commercial Fishing Vessels (1U01OH012288-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10331572. Licensed CC0.

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