IND412: Annual Safety Incident Rates for Australian Commercial Fishing

Average annual counts of reportable safety incidents on Australian commercial fishing vessels over a five-year period. Incidents include injuries, persons overboard, and fatalities affecting crew, skippers, and passengers. The dataset is provided by the Australian Ocean Data Network.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking vessel safety performance based on annual incident averages.
• Analyzing trends in maritime occupational hazards based on incident types.
• Assessing risk factors for crew, skipper, and passenger safety based on reported consequences.

Strengths

• Provides a multi-year average (5 years) for trend stability.
• Focuses on reportable incidents with defined consequences (injuries, overboard, fatalities).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the five-year reporting window.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Time Range

Last 5 years (average annual)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-29 04:03:54.550604; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia (likely)