Failure to maintain individual seafarers’ work hour records that comply with the global format adopted jointly by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) could result in Port State Control difficulties, including possible ship detention.
To assist ship operators, the International Shipping Federation (ISF), in partnership with IT Energy are pleased to introduce the latest version of the popular software programme Watchkeeper 3.
What does Watchkeeper do ?
- Allows individual work hour records to be maintained, to demonstrate compliance with international rules to flag and port state control inspectors.
- Permits individual record forms to be printed off, pre-completed with calculated totals, following the official IMO/ILO format.
- Checks compliance, using forward planning facility, with the wide variety of different work hour regimes permitted by ILO, as well as STCW 95, OPA 90 and (as permitted by ILO) hours agreed in collective bargaining agreements.
- Using ISF’s expert understanding of international regulations, checks compliance with complex rules, difficult to calculate manually, including effective use of the so called “2 day derogation rule”.
Other features include :
- Regular “default schedule” so that printed records can be generated without the need to record hours on a daily basis.
- Production of Official IMO/ILO Schedule of Shipboard Working Hours (for posting on board), as required by IMO/ILO rules.
- Option to create overtime records.
- Range of data export functions.
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