The Navguide News

Your monthly update to the most innovative concepts that organically uplift the performance standards in merchant vessels and leads to a safer maritime industry.

Navguide Collaborates With I.Safe Mobiles

In a bold stride toward revolutionising onboard safety and competence, Navguide Solutions, now a Singapore-based company, and a global pioneer in reimagining maritime learning, has announced a strategic collaboration with i.safe MOBILE, a world market leader in intrinsically safe mobile devices. Our App Guide2Inspections has been tested on i.safe devices and will assist vessels in self-preparing for SIRE 2.0 or Rightship inspections.

​Mariners’ Mic The Navguide Podcast​ ​ Click here to watch

What’s New With Navguide? Upon invitation by the Hong Kong Shipowners’ Association, we presented in Hong Kong and demonstrated our work before several Shipowners and managers[Click here], triggering active discussions in the region. We are honoured to have Capt. Naoki Saito, General Manager, Class NKK, join us in an advisory capacity. Our App Guide2Inspections underwent several upgrades to be released in the coming months. We will add a more intuitive Admin Panel with a snapshot of the condition of the vessel and featuring a risk rating for each vessel, in line with Rightship or SIRE Inspections. We started a Linkedin Newsletter this month called Inspections at Sea. This would be a biweekly publication. Subscribe here. 60-second insights At the Alien command centre, 2030: “Hey. You’re back from the earth. How was it?” “I wanted to sabotage the equipment on their merchant ships; but all instructions are written in text format. The Gen-Z seafarers are bored and confused. So they are self-sabotaging it anyways.” ​ SUBSCRIBE

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Behaviour Based Safety

by Capt. Debashis Basu

Safety cannot come without empathy.

82% of the accidents and incidents are attributed to human error. As for the other 18%, most of them could also be indirectly attributed to human factors.

Here is a core principle of SIRE 2.0, which is as intuitive as it sounds. Let’s face it:

People make mistakes, and those mistakes are rarely intentional.

To create sustainable behaviour change, we need to empathise with those on the frontline. If there is any part of you that tells you you are any better than those who landed up in trouble, you are probably wrong. You were just lucky enough to get the proper mentorship or lucky enough to escape a disaster. Can we reverse engineer the processes needed to prevent human errors with empathy and innovation?

In our recent LinkedIn Poll, most people thought the way to enhance behaviour-based safety (BBS) was with gamified guides. That’s what we have seen too, & at Navguide Solutions, we have been creating systems to bring its effect to the field. These gamified guides to situations are designed to enhance safety by engaging, interactive experiences that simulate real-life scenarios, allowing seafarers to practice decision-making in a risk-free environment.

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