Risk Management

In the Classic safety view, humans are perceived as a hazard and error prone, for which reactive systems like the International Safety Management (ISM) Code System, Planned Maintenance system and Reporting system are created supporting daily operation and control and monitor the human risk.

Further, Classic safety thinking support the believe in leaning from failure – incidents by identifying root causes.

We support the Classic approach by creating and deliver services that are tailored made, communicative and of great value to your business.

Helping you managing the risk by knowledge sharing, assessments and tailor-made interactions at Officer seminar or Emergency drills.

Toolbox of knowledge
Shipping of today is flooded with lessons learned, some of which are addressing general issues while other address specific design or constructions. Whatever the cause(s), it is important that each lesson learned presents a case that raise reflection.

Officer seminar
Whether you are interested in insurance specific topics e.g. ”what is insurance and how do you most effectively manage claims”, “Critical safety thinking” or another topic we will accommodate your needs.  Our field of expertise is at your disposal at request. Over the years our attendance at officers’ seminars have received good feedback. Without doubt this is because of the alignment of expectations.

Emergency drills*
We customize emergency exercises to fit your organization. The exercises are run at no extra cost to the assured. Current topics include grounding, collisions, loss of propulsion and fires, crew injuries etc. In order to ensure realistic, challenging and dynamic scenarios, we cooperate with external consultants with expertise in:

- Navigational

- Shipping

- Ship-management

- Legal input

- Engineering

*as stipulated in the ISM Code

Management and Operational Assessment
The Safety Management System is a framework trying to capture all possible scenarios on-board and thereby supporting a level of quality. While the system is evaluated through audits ect. we want to focus on facilitating discussion around key (work) function that contribute to success and understand why. Emerging from this are behaviour and routines often neglected that prevent incidents from happening.

Ask yourself - why things do most of the time go right?
Progressive safety thinking perceives humans as resources and not a hazard (opposed to Classic Safety) which complete the system/operation as no system is flawless. Progressive safety thinking changes the status-quo, where safety is defined as many things goes wright as possible, and it is from daily operation we understand safety, and safety management is about proactively, continuously trying to anticipate developments and events

We believe progressive thinking must be a complement to the existing safety regime for business to advance and succeed.

We make and deliver services that are; creative, unconventional, tailored made, communicative and of great value. We facilitate Progressive safety thinking in way of interviews, officer seminar “Critical Risk Management” and ideas behind resilience engineering.

Perceptions is reality - How do your organisation experience safe operation?
Your people’s perception is reality. Through interviews, face to face on-board and within the shore organisation interviews, we facilitate dialogue, where perceptions and experience are captured. The outcome - the value, is the multiple understandings (truths) on various topics e.g. Safety vs. Efficiency, Responsibility and Power, Communication and Learning. Creating themes from the dialogues, provides a unique of why operation succeed and sometimes fail. Thus. Strengths and Opportunities within your business.

Resilience Engineering
To maintain success, we believe organisation must be prepared for business interruptions. Because peration model in shipping become more complicated, some say complex, the ability to Monitor, Respond, Anticipate and Learn swift, becomes essential. If you want to explore and understand your organisations Resilience, we can facilitate a Resilience Assessment Grid addressing these abilities and indicating your Strengths and Opportunities?

Functional Resonanse Analysis Method (FRAM) - when classic thinking is a dead end
In the classical safety view, humans are a hazard and error prone, wherefore standard accident investigations typically identify "human error" or “crew negligence” as the root cause that needs to be managed. This is one truth only, which historically has left us with a limited understanding about; how “work is carried out” and measures to prevent re-occurrences.
The FUNCTIONAL RESPONANCE ANALYSIS METHOD (FRAM) approach helps us to develop a model of the activity (process or performance), a representation and an understanding of the situation as a whole – favour asking questions, before searching answers – causes. With this approach and focus in the analysis we may be able to understand and prevent losses more effective in way of:

- Accident analysis - retrospective analysis
- Potential risk - prospective analysis
- System design/redesign analysis

Want to know more – just contact us!

We have developed a system(s) that uses a combination of AI and applied nautical expertise to assess the risk of claims for a ship or fleet.

This has been calibrated with a rich and comprehensive claims data which provides insight into future performance that cannot be accurately provided by recent claims experience alone.

Integrating and analysing data gives us increasingly sophisticated insight which we share in form of benchmarking of fleet performances and predictive analytics enables users to identify behaviour correlated with loss.