The daily running of ships at sea and in port: bridge and engine room procedures, safety culture, incident investigation and lessons learned.
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.
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.
Compliance is evidence that the paperwork was done, not that the job was safe. Why checklists and procedures only work when people can say stop.
Years at sea do not guarantee years of learning. Experience builds pattern recognition and confidence, and both can quietly narrow judgement. Why safe ships need friction, not less experience.
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.
If one crew skips a step, ask about the crew. If every crew skips it, ask about the procedure. What desire paths teach ship managers about non-compliance.
Training narrows how people work; learning means something changes afterwards. Why ship managers can't rely on trained crews alone, and how to investigate so systems get fixed.
DNV and Equinor’s new CLUE taxonomy replaces “causes” with 26 neutral contributing factors. What it changes, what it hasn’t yet proven, and what ship managers can test without adopting anything.