Features

Configure your fleet's work and rest hour rules under four distinct regulatory frameworks: STCW 2010, ILO Maritime Labour Convention, OCIMF tanker vetting standards, and a fully customizable regime for company-specific or flag-state-specific requirements. Each regime defines its own thresholds for minimum rest, maximum work, and rest period division rules.

Switch between regimes at the vessel level or apply a single standard fleet-wide. The Custom regime lets you define bespoke thresholds that go beyond or between the standard frameworks — useful for companies operating under stricter charterer requirements or national regulations that differ from international conventions.

Track crew schedules under three distinct operational modes — Sea, Port, and Anchorage — reflecting the reality that work patterns change fundamentally with vessel status. Each mode carries its own scheduling context, allowing the system to apply mode-appropriate validation rules and display mode-specific schedule templates.

Operational mode transitions are recorded with timestamps, creating a clear log of when the vessel changed status. This mode-aware tracking ensures that compliance calculations account for the different demands of ocean passage, cargo operations in port, and anchor watch duties.

The compliance engine monitors five specific violation types in real time for every crew member: minimum continuous rest hours in a 24-hour period (STCW requires at least 6 hours), minimum total rest hours in 24 hours (at least 10 hours), minimum total rest hours in a 7-day rolling period (at least 77 hours), maximum total work hours in 24 hours, and rest division rules within a 24-hour period.

Each violation type is independently configurable per regulatory regime. When a crew member's recorded hours breach any threshold, the system immediately flags the non-compliance with the specific violation type, the crew member's name, the date, and the exact values that triggered the alert. No more end-of-month surprises — violations surface the moment they occur.

Record work and rest periods in precise 30-minute increments using a 48-cell time grid for each crew member per day. Each cell represents a half-hour block from 0000 to 2330, with work and rest states clearly distinguished. The "0730" format ensures consistency with IMO standard record-keeping conventions.

The half-hour grid provides the resolution needed for accurate compliance calculation without the overhead of minute-by-minute tracking. Bulk fill operations let you paint work or rest across multiple cells in a single action, while individual cell editing handles exceptions and corrections.

Create named schedule templates that define standard work and rest patterns for common watch rotations and duty schedules. Templates are defined per ship and can be reused across days, weeks, and crew members — eliminating the need to manually fill 48 cells for every person every day.

Templates support Active and Inactive status management, so you can maintain a library of patterns for different operational scenarios without cluttering the active template list. Apply a template to a crew member's day with a single action, then adjust individual cells as needed for deviations from the standard pattern.

Track special work operations — port calls, emergency responses, cargo operations, bunkering, and other non-routine activities — as distinct operation blocks with their own time boundaries. Operations provide context for why crew members were working outside normal patterns, giving inspectors and auditors the full picture.

Each operation records its type, start and end times, and the crew members involved. Operations integrate with the daily time grid, overlaying special work blocks on the standard schedule. This separation ensures that routine watch hours and exceptional work periods are tracked independently for accurate compliance reporting.

Assign distinct colors from a predefined palette to operation templates for instant visual identification on the time grid. Color coding lets crew and managers identify operation types at a glance — blue for sea watches, gold for cargo operations, coral for emergency drills, teal for maintenance periods.

The same-work-color option ensures that identical operation types always display consistently across crew members and days. Templates carry Active or Inactive status, keeping your color-coded library organized. The visual system transforms the daily time grid from a monochrome spreadsheet into an intuitive, scannable schedule.

View crew work and rest records in three complementary formats: a multi-crew daily view showing all crew members' 48-cell grids for a single day, a single-crew daily view for detailed individual analysis, and a single-crew monthly view providing the full calendar picture required by STCW record-keeping regulations.

The multi-crew daily view is the primary operational tool — the officer responsible for hours-of-rest records can see the entire crew's schedule at once, spot gaps, and identify potential violations before they occur. The monthly view aggregates daily data into the format needed for regulatory submissions and Port State Control inspections.

Designate crew members as watchkeepers on a per-month basis, tracking which personnel are assigned to bridge watch duties. Watchkeeper designation is critical for compliance because STCW applies additional rest requirements to crew members responsible for navigational or engineering watches.

The monthly watchkeeper roster integrates with the daily time grid and compliance engine. When a crew member is designated as a watchkeeper, the system applies the appropriate rest requirements for watch-standing personnel. Changes to watchkeeper assignments are logged for audit trail purposes.

Generate formal non-conformity reports for any detected violation with a single action. Reports are rendered from structured templates and include the crew member's details, the violation type, the specific threshold breached, the actual recorded values, the date and time period, and the applicable regulatory regime.

Non-conformity reports serve as the official record for Port State Control inspections, flag state audits, and internal safety reviews. The structured format ensures consistency across your fleet — every non-conformity report follows the same template regardless of which vessel or officer generates it.

Generate aggregated work summary reports that compile crew hours across configurable date ranges. Summary reports show total work hours, total rest hours, average daily work, and compliance status for each crew member — providing management with a fleet-level view of working time patterns.

Print functionality produces formatted reports suitable for office review, flag state submission, and company record-keeping. Summary reports can be filtered by vessel, date range, department, and rank to answer specific management questions about crew workload distribution.

Add per-date, per-crew remarks to document the context behind unusual work patterns, schedule deviations, or operational circumstances. Remarks include a description field that captures the officer's narrative explanation — essential for justifying non-standard hours during inspections.

Remarks become part of the permanent daily record alongside the time grid data. During a Port State Control inspection, the inspector can see not only what hours were worked but why. This contextual layer transforms raw schedule data into a complete, defensible record of crew working time.

Handle regulatory exceptions with built-in support for the OPA (overriding operational conditions) clause and the Manila Amendments exception provisions. The allowOPAClause and allowManilaException flags can be enabled at the vessel or regime level, modifying how the compliance engine evaluates rest period requirements during qualifying circumstances.

When an OPA clause or Manila exception applies, the system adjusts its violation thresholds accordingly and records the exception in the compliance log. This ensures that legitimate exceptions are properly documented rather than appearing as unexplained violations — critical for demonstrating good-faith compliance during inspections.

Monitor your fleet's work and rest hour compliance health with dedicated dashboard widgets. Track violation counts, compliance rates, crew workload distribution, and watchkeeper coverage across your entire fleet at a glance.

Widgets provide at-a-glance KPIs for fleet superintendents and DPAs: How many violations occurred this week? Which vessels have the highest non-compliance rates? Are watchkeeper rest requirements being met? Drill down from any widget to the underlying crew data for immediate action.