Drills

Plan drill execution with precision using structured timeline entries. Each PlanningEvent captures a date, start time, end time, and title — creating a minute-by-minute execution plan that drill coordinators and participants can follow during the exercise.

Add, edit, and delete planning events to build a complete drill timeline. From initial muster to final debrief, every phase of the drill is scheduled and visible. The timeline serves as both a planning tool before the drill and an execution record afterward — documenting exactly how the drill was structured.

Build comprehensive drill checklists with five question types — Checkbox, Staged, Inquiry, Single Choice, and Multiple Choice. Each checklist item captures the specific criteria your assessors need to evaluate, with structured response formats that drive consistent, comparable results across drills.

Staged items support progressive assessment (e.g., Not Started / In Progress / Completed). Inquiry items capture free-text observations. Choice items enforce selection from predefined options. Hierarchical categories organize checklist items into logical sections matching your drill assessment framework. Mix and match types within a single checklist to match any safety standard.

Assess every crew member's performance individually. Each drill attendee receives a structured review consisting of a numeric rating and a textual remark — capturing both quantitative performance data and qualitative observations about the crew member's response, knowledge, and execution.

The system automatically computes an average performance rating across all attendees, giving drill coordinators an instant summary metric for the overall drill quality. Individual ratings build a longitudinal performance profile for each crew member, identifying who needs additional training and who excels in emergency response scenarios.

Get oversight from both shore and vessel management with a dual-source review system. Company reviews and ship reviews are tracked separately, with independent review counts for each source — ensuring that both office DPAs and vessel masters provide their assessment of drill quality.

Add, edit, and remove reviews from either source independently. The separation between company and ship reviews reflects the real-world oversight structure in maritime operations, where shore-based management and vessel leadership evaluate drills from different perspectives with different priorities.

Assign drill definitions to specific vessels and schedule execution across your fleet. Definitions are assigned to ships, creating vessel-specific drill obligations that crew can execute according to their operational schedule. The assignment system supports all 29 on-board ranks across Deck and Engine departments.

Ship-based scheduling ensures that every vessel in your fleet maintains its required drill program. Drill coordinators can see which definitions are assigned to which vessels, track completion status per ship, and identify vessels that are falling behind their drill schedule.

Schedule drills directly into the Navatom calendar system. Each drill creates a calendar event with date, time, and assigned participants. Support for both single events and recurring schedules handles everything from one-off emergency exercises to monthly fire drills and quarterly abandon ship drills.

Recurring drill schedules automatically generate future drill events based on your configured frequency. Calendar visibility ensures safety officers, vessel masters, and shore management all see upcoming drills in their planning views — reducing scheduling conflicts and improving participation rates.

Every action within a drill is recorded in the most comprehensive event log of any Navatom safety module. Twenty-eight operation event types track drill execution — from creation and status changes through attendee management, scenario edits, planning events, initial meeting records, performance ratings, file operations, and report updates.

Thirty-four meta event types track definition management — covering creation, release, deprecation, definition workflow transitions, checklist operations (full CRUD plus reorder), comment management, and ship assignments. Combined, the 62 event types provide a second-by-second narrative of every drill and every template change, fully auditable for external inspection.