Field investigation on the state of marine safety of traditional fishery

Abstract

Gaining an understanding of the characteristics that affect maritime safety is not easy. It is necessary to have sufficient information about what can support safety. Problems in traditional fishing are visible from the low level of safety and the availability of information that supports the fishers’ safety. Several accidents that occur due to negligence of work prove that the low quality of information is also the cause of failure to maintain safety. What commonly happens is that there are differences and discrepancies in recorded accident data with reality on the field, where this is rarely known even though accidents occur. It shows that there is no data integrity to support safety. When talking about safety, there must be a potential failure, which can be identified from the information obtained. However, in reality, the information used to support fishers’ safety is not available, so traditional fishing boats’ safety cannot run optimally due to data unavailability. When safety governance cannot be carried out using correct data, safety management becomes ineffective. By investigating the state of marine safety and examining the role of information on traditional fishers’ safety, it is hoped that it can produce a better mechanism for traditional fishers’ safety.