Maritime Safety AI: How NAVIREGO Turns Lessons Into Life-Saving Action

In July 2021, the UK's Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) released a report on a tragic event aboard the bulk carrier Berge Mawson. Three crew members lost their lives while attempting to enter a cargo tank filled with inert gas. The most devastating part? The root cause wasn't a sudden equipment failure or a rogue decision. It was procedural, outdated safety guidance, missed connections between past incidents and present-day practice.

Sadly, this isn't rare. In the maritime world, we often discover the why only after an incident. But by then, it's too late. Reports are written, lessons are "learned," and yet the same mistakes resurface sometimes years later, on different ships, under different names.

This is exactly the kind of risk maritime safety AI can help prevent.

The Pattern: When Safety Knowledge Doesn't Travel

Every fleet has safety reports. Every technical superintendent has read a dozen investigation summaries. Yet somehow, those insights don't always reach the crew. Why?

• Reports are siloed in inboxes or folders

• Lessons get logged but are not embedded into workflows, or are

  completely forgotten

• There's no clear process for maritime safety procedure updates

When a report dies in a PDF, we don't just lose data, we lose lives. What the industry needs is a system that turns information into prevention.

What AI Can (and Should) Do

AI isn't magic. But with the right design, it can support HSQE teams, safety officers, superintendents, and shipowners in making faster, smarter decisions without losing control.

Here's where AI for incident prevention in maritime shines:

• Scanning global safety bulletins (e.g., MAIB, EMSA, NTSB)

• Reviewing internal near-miss reports across a fleet

• Highlighting patterns or risks similar to past incidents

• Suggesting changes to SOPs and risk assessments

This is what makes NAVIREGO's approach unique. Our platform uses maritime safety AI to flag risks before they repeat, not after they become another tragic case study.

NAVIREGO's Approach: Turning Reports into Real Change

NAVIREGO is built to transform insights into actions. It's not just another document database. It's an intelligent system that:

• Reads and maps incident findings across fleets

• Compare them with your safety procedures

• Proposes procedural edits when patterns emerge

• Sends alerts to specific teams with ship-specific guidance

In short, we use AI-powered risk assessment tools to support the people already working hard to make maritime safer.

Our system helps close the loop between investigation, insight, and actual behavioral change. That's the future of a proactive safety culture in maritime.

Human in the Loop: Why NAVIREGO Puts People First

We don't believe AI should make safety decisions. That's why NAVIREGO is designed as a human-in-the-loop AI system.

• Every proposed procedure update can be reviewed and approved

• No critical decision is made without human oversight

• All outputs are traceable and editable

Our goal is not to replace the expertise of safety managers; it's to amplify it. We want to make sure lessons learned in maritime safety don't get lost in translation.

How It Works Across the Org

For COO & Leadership Team technical teams:

• Monitor fleet-wide safety performance and procedural compliance.

  Flag outdated risk assessments

• Benchmark trends across vessels and competitors to support strategic

  decisions. Compare current shipboard practices with recent safety guidance

For HSQE Teams & Safety Managers :

• Receive alerts when internal events (i.e., near-misses) mirror

  external reports

• Review and approve AI-suggested updates to SMS and SOPs

For Crew :

• Receive targeted safety guidance based on real-time updates

• Report near-misses and observations into a connected feedback loop

  and get support in properly analyzing these events.

NAVIREGO bridges gaps between insights, documents, and decision-makers, all within a secure, role-specific, digital safety system for shipping.

The Bigger Picture: Preventing the Next Tragedy

In the case of the Berge Mawson, a simple procedural change may have saved lives. But someone needed to connect the dots between past incidents, safety guidance, and what was happening on board.

With maritime safety AI, we finally have a way to make that connection automatic, without losing human oversight.

Every report filed. Every lesson learned. Every policy has been updated. It all matters but only if it reaches the people who need it.

Final Call: Don't Let the Next Report Be a Repeat

NAVIREGO's mission is simple: use AI to prevent preventable incidents.

We don't need more reports. We need better systems to act on the ones we already have.

If you're ready to move from safety reaction to safety reinforcement, let's talk.

Explore NAVIREGO's maritime safety solutions.Contact us to see how AI can support your safety goals before the next lesson comes too late.*