Features

Identify and classify every operational hazard with precision. Navatom supports three distinct hazard types — Environmental, Property, and Health — ensuring that every risk is categorized by its impact domain. Each hazard captures structured data including controls, consequences, and tolerance scoring, creating a complete risk profile that goes far beyond simple text descriptions.

Three hazard statuses — Active, Deprecated, and Invalid — manage the lifecycle of hazard definitions over time. As operations change and new risks emerge, deprecated hazards remain in the historical record while invalid entries are flagged without data loss. The classification system ensures your hazard register stays current and meaningful.

Score every hazard with a probability-times-severity risk matrix that adapts to your organization's methodology. Navatom supports three matrix sizes — 3×3, 4×4, and 5×5 — so you can match the granularity expected by your SMS manual, classification society, or flag state requirements.

The matrix engine combines five probability levels (Improbable, Remote, Occasional, Probable, Frequent) with five severity levels (Negligible, Minor, Moderate, Major, Catastrophic) to produce a calculated tolerability score. Visual matrix displays make risk levels immediately apparent to assessors, while the configurable size ensures the right balance between simplicity and analytical depth.

Every hazard receives a tolerability rating across five levels — Low, Moderate, High, Critical, and Catastrophic — derived from the probability-severity matrix calculation. Each level carries its own action threshold: Low risks may require only monitoring, while Critical and Catastrophic risks demand immediate controls, management review, and operational restrictions.

Tolerability levels drive downstream workflow behavior. High-tolerability hazards trigger mandatory control measures and approval requirements. The five-level scale provides enough granularity to distinguish between risks that need watching and risks that need immediate intervention, without overwhelming assessors with unnecessary complexity.

Document and track control measures for every identified hazard. Each control captures a description of the mitigation action, completion status, and responsibility assignment. Controls can be added on demand as new mitigation strategies are identified during the assessment process or as operational conditions change.

The control management system ensures that risk assessments are not just identification exercises but active mitigation plans. Track which controls are in place, which are pending implementation, and which need verification. The structured approach transforms hazard identification into actionable risk reduction.

Link risk assessments directly to your SMS manual procedures and operational steps. Each assessment definition includes an ordered list of operations that map to specific procedures in the Manuals module, creating a living connection between your safety management system documentation and the risks associated with each operational activity.

The procedure hierarchy ensures that risk assessments are not standalone documents but integral parts of your safety management system. When a procedure changes, the linked risk assessment surfaces for review. When a new hazard is identified, it connects back to the specific operation that generates the risk.

Every risk assessment execution follows a controlled five-stage lifecycle — Ongoing, Awaiting Approval, Rejected, Completed, and Deleted. The lifecycle enforces data integrity at each transition: an Ongoing assessment cannot be marked Complete without all required hazard evaluations, and a Completed assessment locks its data against further modification.

The Awaiting Approval stage introduces a formal review gate where designated approvers verify that the assessment was conducted properly, all hazards were evaluated, and control measures are adequate. Rejected assessments return to the assessor with reviewer comments for correction, creating a quality loop that ensures assessment rigor.

Vessel crews conduct risk assessments directly on board using the ship-side deployment, with full functionality available regardless of connectivity status. The assessment workflow guides crew members through hazard identification, risk scoring, control documentation, and form completion — all synchronized with the office when connectivity is available.

Ship-side execution is not a simplified mobile view — it is the complete assessment platform running locally on the vessel. Crew members work with the same risk matrices, hazard classifications, and control templates as shore-based safety managers. Office-ship synchronization ensures that completed assessments appear in fleet-wide dashboards without manual data transfer.

Assign assessment responsibility and approval authority based on 29 recognized on-board ranks. Each risk assessment definition specifies which ranks are responsible for conducting the assessment and which ranks have approval authority, ensuring that the right crew members perform and verify each assessment.

Rank-based assignment scales across your fleet — define the assessment once with rank requirements, and every vessel's crew structure automatically determines who conducts and who approves. The system adapts to crew changes without requiring individual name assignments, reducing administrative overhead while maintaining accountability.

Classify the operational difficulty of each risk assessment with five levels — Very Easy, Easy, Moderate, Difficult, and Very Difficult. Difficulty ratings help safety managers allocate assessment time, identify assessments that may need additional training or supervision, and plan assessment schedules that account for complexity.

Difficulty levels are metadata on the assessment definition, not the individual hazards. A cargo tank cleaning assessment rated "Difficult" signals to the planning team that it requires experienced assessors and adequate time allocation. This operational intelligence improves assessment quality by ensuring adequate preparation.

Embed digital checklists and structured forms directly within risk assessments using the Forms module integration. Assessment forms capture standardized data — safety equipment checks, environmental condition surveys, crew competency verifications — as part of the assessment workflow rather than as separate documents.

Forms integration means that risk assessments can include any structured data collection your SMS requires. Pre-departure checklists, hot work permits, enclosed space entry forms — all link to the parent assessment and contribute to the overall risk evaluation. Form submissions are recorded as assessment events for full traceability.

Link risk assessments to related maintenance tasks in the Planned Maintenance System. When a hazard identifies equipment-related risks, the assessment connects directly to the relevant PMS work orders, creating bidirectional visibility between risk management and maintenance planning.

The integration ensures that maintenance-driven risks are not assessed in isolation. A risk assessment for crane operations can reference the crane's maintenance history, outstanding work orders, and certification status. Conversely, PMS planners can see which maintenance tasks have associated risk assessments, improving planning decisions.

Create risk assessment templates once and replicate them across your entire fleet. The CopyRiskAssessmentToAnotherShip functionality lets you take a proven assessment definition — complete with hazards, controls, operations, and form configurations — and deploy it to any vessel in your fleet with a single action.

Template management eliminates the need to rebuild assessments from scratch on every vessel. When your safety team develops a new cargo handling risk assessment, it can be immediately distributed to all relevant vessels. Template replication preserves the complete assessment structure while allowing vessel-specific customization after deployment.

Document the potential consequences of every identified hazard with structured consequence records. Each consequence captures what could happen if the hazard materializes without adequate controls — including the affected domain (Environmental, Property, Health), the potential severity, and the chain of events leading to the adverse outcome.

Structured consequence documentation transforms risk assessments from abstract scoring exercises into concrete safety narratives. When crew members can see exactly what a "Major" severity rating means in terms of real consequences — oil spill volume, injury potential, equipment damage scope — the risk assessment becomes a more effective safety communication tool.

Add comments and upload file attachments at both the assessment level and the individual hazard level. Evidence photographs, reference documents, manufacturer safety data sheets, and previous incident reports can be attached directly to the relevant hazard, keeping supporting documentation in context.

Per-hazard commenting enables collaborative risk assessment development. Safety officers can add notes about specific hazards, crew members can attach field observations, and shore-based managers can provide guidance — all threaded within the hazard record. File attachments support the evidence trail required for ISM compliance.

Every action within the risk assessment system is recorded across 43 distinct event types spanning meta definitions (17 events), assessment logs (6 events), and hazard records (20 events). From initial creation through hazard additions, control modifications, form submissions, and status changes, the event stream provides a second-by-second narrative of the entire assessment lifecycle.

The audit trail is not just a log — it is an accountability and compliance system. Every event carries full user attribution, timestamp, and contextual data. ISM auditors, port state inspectors, and classification society surveyors can reconstruct exactly what happened during any risk assessment, who made each decision, and when.

Monitor your risk assessment program's health with dedicated dashboard widgets and analytics. Track assessment completion rates, outstanding assessments, hazard distribution by type and tolerability, and fleet-wide risk trends — all aggregated from real assessment data across your entire fleet.

Dashboard views give safety managers and DPAs immediate visibility into risk assessment coverage. Which vessels have completed their required assessments? Which hazard types appear most frequently? Where are the highest-tolerability risks concentrated? Drill down from any widget to the underlying assessment data for detailed investigation.