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Safety & Operations

So you’ve spilled oil in port: six mistakes that hurt more than the spill

After an oil spill in port, how a vessel behaves in the first hours matters more than the quantity. Six common mistakes, from late notification to tidied-up records, and what to do in the first hour.

8 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Safety & Operations

A.P.E.M. of a casualty: four stages of casualty management

The four stages of voyage planning, Appraisal, Planning, Execution and Monitoring, translate directly into casualty management. What each stage involves, and why it is a loop, not a line.

8 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
Industry & Commercial

Beyond surveys: managing distressed cargo

Managing distressed cargo after a container casualty has little to do with survey work alone. Nine steps from risk profiling to cost control, from someone who has done it for twelve years.

8 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Nobody thanks the HSE department for the accident that didn’t happenDOSSIER REF. MD-2026-233
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Nobody thanks the HSE department for the accident that didn’t happen

A quiet HSE department is not an idle one: its work is what makes nothing happen. Why a quiet year is not proof of safety, and why quiet times are when the guard should stay up.

Safety & Operations · 9 min read
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Five entries that show where Maritime Dossier is coming from: how we think about training, procedures, audits, safety work and incident reporting.

  1. Safety & OperationsYou can’t train your way out of human error6 min read
  2. Safety & OperationsWhen the whole fleet skips the step, the procedure is the finding5 min read
  3. Safety & OperationsNobody thanks the HSE department for the accident that didn’t happen9 min read
  4. Vetting & AuditsAccept every finding, however small7 min read
  5. Safety & OperationsCLUE: a first look at DNV’s new incident taxonomy4 min read

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