health and safety

  • Angle lifeboat launched to injured fisherman

    Angle lifeboat launched to injured fisherman

    10th January 2022

    On 29 December, the crew of Angle RNLI in South Wales were paged just before 6pm to assist a 23m trawler 32 miles southwest of St Ann’s Head. A fisherman onboard had suffered a traumatic hand injury. A Coastguard helicopter…

  • Project funding: How Fishing Animateur can help

    Project funding: How Fishing Animateur can help

    28th September 2021

    With a new funding round of the government’s Fisheries and Seafood Scheme (FaSS) now open for applications, Rachael Harper talks to Imogen Smith-Devey, who has been working as a fishing animateur for 18 months, about how the project can help…

  • Sunderland Marine: Getting out the safety message

    Sunderland Marine: Getting out the safety message

    15th July 2021

    Marine insurance specialist Sunderland Marine has been creating easy and approachable ways to communicate the importance of safety on fishing vessels. Rachael Harper spoke to marine underwriting manager Craig McBurnie and loss prevention executive Alvin Forster (pictured above, right, with…

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