Researching and evaluation methods of working environment at the fishing ports

It is required to investigate fisheries' working environment and develop evaluation methods of that. The fishing ports in Japan have been constructed as public enterprises. Although many quays and sites have been constructed for the past fifty years, systematic inspections of the situation of the working environment have not performed yet. The working environment includes thermal environment, distribution of working hours, evasion from danger and various elements. As for factory environment, there are sufficient evaluation methods to measure those elements. In this paper, the outline of the evaluation methods of the working environment at the fishing ports is explained. That technique will be a basis of the evaluation, and then it should be taken account of the characteristic matters of fishing ports as working sites, such as overlap with a life space, difficulty of renovation of facilities and so on. If those methods are systematized, they will contribute to improve comfortableness and safety of fisheries' working environment, and to solve the problems of an aging society.