By Mike Breslin, Senior Director – Safety & Sustainability, AWO America’s tugboat, towboat, and barge industry is the safest mode of bulk freight transportation in the United States. We have significantly less
Michael Breslin
By Mike Breslin, Senior Director – Safety & Sustainability, AWO
America’s tugboat, towboat, and barge industry is the safest mode of bulk freight transportation in the United States. We have significantly less injuries and fatalities when compared to truck and rail, and our industry has driven fatality rates down from an average near 15 annually to less than six per year from 2010 to 2023. But while our safety record is strong, our work is not done and there has yet to be a year with zero fatalities.
As we pursue continuous improvement, it is imperative that we look at the leading cause of work-related crew deaths: falls overboard. To do so, the American Waterways Operators (AWO) convened its Falls Overboard Prevention Subcommittee in 2022 and tasked the Subcommittee with finding ways to stop or greatly reduce the risk of fatality due to a Fall Overboard (FOB) by identifying mitigations and risk techniques that may apply to our
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