Accidents | Navatom

Benefits

Why Accidents?

Key advantages of using Accidents as part of the Navatom integrated ship management platform.

Complete Incident Investigation in One Platform

Injuries, evidence, witnesses, weather conditions, environmental impact, and corrective actions — all captured in a single, integrated system. No scattered spreadsheets, no separate evidence folders, no disconnected report templates.

Accurate Injury & Fatality Reporting

Five injury severity levels with structured documentation ensure that every injury is classified correctly, treated appropriately, and reported to the required authorities. From first-aid cases to serious casualties, the documentation meets regulatory standards.

Evidence-Based Investigation with Full Traceability

Hard and soft evidence, witness statements, and environmental conditions build a complete picture of every incident. Every piece of evidence links to the investigation record with chain-of-custody documentation.

Port State Detention Records at Your Fingertips

When an incident leads to detention, the detention details are documented alongside the investigation. Your operations, commercial, and compliance teams all have access to the same detention information and resolution timeline.

Fleet-Wide Incident Intelligence

Dashboards aggregate incident data across your entire fleet — frequency, severity, injury types, detention rates, and corrective action status. Identify safety trends and allocate resources where they will have the greatest impact.

Regulatory-Ready Investigation Reports

Structured investigation reports draw from data already in the system — incident details, evidence, witness statements, and corrective actions. Meet the documentation requirements of flag state authorities, P&I clubs, and maritime investigation bodies.

From Incident to Prevention Through Structured Learning

Every accident becomes a learning opportunity. Root cause analysis, corrective actions, and preventive measures feed back into your safety management system. Fleet-wide incident patterns reveal systemic risks that individual investigations would miss.

Navatom Accidents is the comprehensive investigation platform for maritime incidents — covering injuries, fatalities, environmental impact, weather conditions, witness statements, and physical evidence in a single, structured system. When an accident occurs at sea, the first hours and days are critical for gathering evidence, documenting conditions, and establishing the facts. Navatom gives your investigation team a purpose-built platform that ensures nothing is missed.

The module captures six dimensions of every incident: the event itself, the people involved (injuries and fatalities), the environmental conditions (weather, visibility, sea state on the Beaufort scale), the evidence (both hard physical evidence and soft documentary evidence), witness accounts, and the investigation findings. Port authority detention tracking ensures that vessel detentions are documented and resolved alongside the incident record.

A six-stage incident lifecycle guides every accident from initial reporting through investigation, corrective action, and closure. Three types of corrective action — interim, corrective, and preventive — ensure that immediate risks are contained while root causes are addressed. Fleet-wide dashboards aggregate incident data across your entire fleet, transforming individual accident records into safety intelligence that prevents future occurrences.

Capabilities

Key Features

Discover how Navatom Accidents helps ship managers work faster and stay compliant with powerful, easy-to-use tools.

Incident Investigation Workflow

Structure every accident investigation with a guided workflow that ensures thorough, consistent documentation. From the initial incident report through evidence collection, witness interviews, and root cause determination, the workflow keeps your investigation team on track.

The investigation workflow adapts to the severity of the incident. A minor injury follows a streamlined process; a serious casualty or environmental incident triggers comprehensive investigation requirements including management review and authority notification documentation.

Guided investigation process Severity-adaptive requirements Structured evidence collection Management review triggers

Injury Severity Tracking

Document injuries with five severity levels that capture the full spectrum from minor first-aid cases to permanently disabling injuries. Each severity level carries specific reporting requirements and follow-up protocols aligned with maritime regulatory expectations.

Injury records include the nature of the injury, the body part affected, the treatment provided, and the recovery outcome. Fleet-wide injury data aggregates across vessels, revealing patterns in injury types, locations, and activities that inform your safety program.

5 injury severity levels
Injury nature & body part recording
Treatment and outcome documentation
Fleet-wide injury pattern analysis

Fatality & Casualty Documentation

When the worst happens, the module provides structured documentation for fatalities and serious casualties. Every detail — the circumstances, the timeline, the persons involved, the immediate response — is captured in a format that meets regulatory reporting requirements.

Fatality records link to the complete incident investigation, including witness statements, environmental conditions, and evidence. This comprehensive documentation supports your obligations to flag state authorities, P&I clubs, and maritime investigation bodies.

Structured casualty records
Regulatory reporting format
Full investigation linkage
Authority notification support

Environmental Impact Assessment

Document the environmental consequences of every incident — spills, emissions, discharges, and any other environmental impact. The assessment captures the type of pollutant, the estimated quantity, the affected area, and the containment measures taken.

Environmental impact records link directly to the incident investigation and corrective actions. When regulatory authorities or P&I clubs require environmental damage documentation, the complete record is immediately available with supporting evidence.

Pollutant type classification
Quantity and area estimation
Containment measure documentation
Regulatory evidence packaging

Witness Management

Record witness statements from crew members and other persons who observed the incident. Each witness record captures the person's identity, their location at the time of the incident, and their account of events.

Witness statements are linked to the incident timeline, allowing investigators to cross-reference multiple accounts and build a comprehensive picture of what happened. All witness records are preserved as part of the permanent investigation file.

Structured witness statements
Location and time recording
Multi-witness cross-referencing
Permanent investigation record

Weather & Visibility Recording

Capture the environmental conditions at the time of every incident — wind speed and direction on the twelve-point Beaufort scale, sea state, visibility, precipitation, temperature, and lighting conditions. These conditions often play a critical role in incident causation.

Standardized weather recording using the Beaufort scale ensures consistent, comparable data across all incidents and vessels. Fleet-wide analysis can reveal whether certain weather conditions correlate with increased incident frequency.

12-point Beaufort scale
Sea state documentation
Visibility and precipitation capture
Weather-incident correlation data

Hard & Soft Evidence Collection

Organize investigation evidence into two categories: hard evidence (physical items, equipment parts, samples) and soft evidence (photographs, documents, recordings, certificates). Each evidence item is cataloged with descriptions, chain-of-custody notes, and storage details.

The dual-category system mirrors professional investigation practice. Hard evidence may need to be preserved physically; soft evidence is uploaded and stored digitally. Both categories link to the incident record and are available for investigation review.

Physical evidence cataloging
Digital file management
Chain-of-custody tracking
Dual-category organization

Investigation Report Builder

Compile your investigation findings into a structured report that covers all required elements — the incident description, contributing factors, root causes, evidence summary, and corrective action recommendations. The report draws from data already captured in the system.

Investigation reports serve multiple audiences: internal management review, flag state reporting, P&I club notifications, and classification society communication. The structured format ensures that every audience receives the complete, consistent information they need.

Structured report compilation
Data drawn from existing records
Multi-audience report format
Flag state and P&I ready

Port Authority Detention Tracking

When an incident results in port authority detention, document the detention details alongside the incident record. Track the detaining authority, the detention reasons, the conditions for release, and the resolution timeline.

Detention records provide crucial operational and commercial data. Your operations team needs to know when the vessel will be released; your commercial team needs to assess the financial impact; your compliance team needs to document the regulatory response.

Detaining authority records
Release conditions documentation
Resolution timeline tracking
Commercial impact visibility

Interim, Corrective & Preventive Actions

Address incident findings at three levels: interim actions secure the scene and contain immediate risks, corrective actions resolve the specific conditions that contributed to the incident, and preventive actions update your safety management system to prevent recurrence.

Each action type is tracked with assigned responsibility, deadlines, evidence of completion, and verification. For serious incidents, all three action types work in parallel — the scene is secured while the investigation proceeds and systemic changes are planned.

Scene security & risk containment
Specific condition correction
Systemic prevention measures
Parallel action tracking

Interim, Corrective & Preventive Actions

Six-Stage Incident Lifecycle

Every accident follows a six-stage lifecycle from initial reporting through investigation, corrective action, verification, and closure. The lifecycle ensures that no incident is closed without completing the required investigation, evidence collection, and corrective action steps.

Stage transitions enforce investigation completeness. An incident with injuries cannot be closed without documenting the injury outcomes. An incident with environmental impact cannot be closed without recording the containment measures and regulatory notifications.

Controlled investigation progression
Completeness-enforced transitions
Injury documentation gates
Environmental closure requirements

Priority & Severity Classification

Classify every incident by both priority and severity to ensure that the most serious events receive immediate investigation resources. Severity captures the actual harm — injuries, fatalities, environmental damage, property loss. Priority determines the investigation urgency.

The dual classification ensures that a near-fatal injury receives more investigation resources than a minor first-aid case, while both remain in the system for trend analysis and regulatory compliance.

Dual priority and severity ratings
Investigation resource allocation
Critical incident escalation
Proportionate response guidance

Ship & Office Incident Tracking

Report and investigate incidents from both ship and office environments. Shipboard incidents are documented by the vessel crew and immediately visible to shore-based investigation coordinators. Office-initiated investigations are communicated to vessels.

The dual-context approach ensures that your designated person ashore sees the same incident data as the vessel master. Investigation coordination between ship and shore happens in real time through the shared system.

Unified ship-shore investigation
Real-time coordination
DPA immediate visibility
Shared investigation timeline

Crew Assignment & Responsibility

Assign investigation responsibilities to specific personnel — the investigating officer, the safety officer, the master, and shore-based coordinators. Each assignment includes the scope of responsibility, expected deliverables, and deadlines.

Complex incidents may involve multiple investigators with different responsibilities — one focused on the physical evidence, another on witness statements, and a third on regulatory reporting. The system tracks all assignments in parallel.

Investigating officer assignment
Multi-investigator support
Parallel responsibility tracking
Deadline and scope management

Rich Descriptions & File Attachments

Document every incident with detailed narrative descriptions and supporting files. Attach photographs of the scene, equipment damage reports, medical records, authority correspondence, and any other evidence that supports the investigation.

Rich documentation is critical for serious incident investigations. When flag state authorities, P&I clubs, or maritime investigation bodies request information, the complete investigation package is available with a single export.

Detailed incident narratives
Scene photographs
Medical and authority correspondence
Complete investigation package

Threaded Comments & Collaboration

Coordinate investigation activities with threaded comments attached to each incident record. Ship and shore personnel can exchange updates, share analysis, request additional evidence, and discuss findings in context.

The comment thread preserves the investigation narrative — questions asked, evidence requested, hypotheses explored, and conclusions reached. This collaborative record demonstrates the thoroughness of your investigation process.

Ship-shore investigation discussion
Evidence request threads
Analysis and hypothesis exchange
Preserved investigation narrative

Complete Audit Trail

Every action on an incident is recorded in a tamper-proof event log. From initial reporting through witness additions, evidence uploads, injury documentation, severity changes, and investigation closure — every step is captured with full attribution.

The audit trail serves both internal and external purposes. Internally, it ensures investigation accountability. Externally, it provides the documented evidence that maritime authorities, insurers, and investigation bodies require.

Full event logging per incident
Witness and evidence tracking
User attribution and timestamps
Regulatory compliance evidence

Analytics & Dashboard

Monitor fleet safety with dashboards that track incident frequency, injury severity distributions, incident types, detention statistics, and corrective action closure rates. Fleet-wide views identify vessels, operations, or conditions with elevated incident risk.

Safety analytics transform individual incident records into prevention intelligence. Which operations generate the most incidents? Which injury types are most common? Are incident rates improving or deteriorating? The dashboard answers these questions across your entire fleet.

Incident frequency tracking
Injury severity distributions
Detention statistics
Corrective action closure rates

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Accidents answered.

What types of incidents does the module cover? +

Navatom Accidents covers all maritime incidents including personal injuries (five severity levels), fatalities, environmental incidents (spills, emissions, discharges), property damage, and any event that results in or could have resulted in port authority detention. Each incident captures the full investigation context including weather conditions, evidence, and witness statements.

How does evidence management work? +

Evidence is organized into two categories: hard evidence (physical items, equipment parts, samples) and soft evidence (photographs, documents, recordings, certificates). Each evidence item is cataloged with descriptions, chain-of-custody notes, and storage details.

Both categories link permanently to the incident record.

Can the module track port authority detentions? +

Yes. When an incident results in port authority detention, the detention details — the detaining authority, detention reasons, conditions for release, and resolution timeline — are documented alongside the incident record.

This provides your operations and compliance teams with a complete picture.

How are weather and sea conditions recorded? +

The module captures wind speed and direction on the twelve-point Beaufort scale, sea state, visibility, precipitation, temperature, and lighting conditions. Standardized recording ensures consistent, comparable data across all incidents, enabling fleet-wide analysis of weather-related incident patterns.

Does the module work offline on vessels? +

Yes. Vessels can document incidents, collect evidence, record witness statements, and update investigations independently of shore connectivity.

When satellite connection is available, all changes synchronize automatically with the office system.

What investigation reporting capabilities are available? +

The investigation report builder compiles findings into a structured report covering the incident description, contributing factors, root causes, evidence summary, and corrective action recommendations. Reports draw from data already in the system and meet the documentation requirements of flag state authorities, P&I clubs, and maritime investigation bodies.

How does the module help prevent future incidents? +

Three types of corrective action (interim, corrective, preventive) ensure that immediate risks are contained while systemic changes prevent recurrence. Fleet-wide analytics reveal incident patterns — types, locations, conditions, and activities — that inform your safety program and training priorities.