Incident Categories
Incident Classification
Levels
Injury Navigation (Grounding / Equipment Failure (Propulsion
Fire
Collision / Contact) / Electrical Power / Steering)
Hard aground with major hull
rupture. Fire involving multiple
compartments / areas requiring
Heavy contact with another vessel external assistance to extinguish.
/ object causing significant Recovery expected > 24 hours.
Level 4 Fatality damage to own vessel and major Explosion. Vessel severely disabled with no
(Major) hull rupture. prospect of onboard repair. Tug
Vessel lost or severely disabled.
Vessel lost or severely disabled. or external assistance required.
Crew evacuated or potential for
Crew evacuated or potential for abandoning.
abandoning.
Equipment failure where the
Vessel grounded with minor hull
rupture. Fire involving multiple recovery is expected to be > 12
compartments / areas and hours, < 24 hours.
Level 3 LWC extinguished by ship's fixed fire
PPD Vessel coming in contact with fighting systems. External assistance with repairs
(Significant) PTD another vessel / object with
minor hull rupture. required.
No external assistance required.
Vessel grounded with minor shell
damage and no hull rupture. Equipment failure where the
Fire restricted to one recovery is expected to be > 3
Level 2 MTC
Vessel coming in contact with
compartment / area and
(Moderate) RWC extinguished by ship’s fire-fighting hours, < 12 hours.
another vessel / object with
minor shell damage to own vessel teams. No external assistance required.
and no hull rupture.
Equipment failure where the
recovery is expected to be within
3 hours.
Level 1 Nav incidents start from Level 2 Small fire extinguished quickly
FAC severity without the use of ship's fire- No threat to people on board,
(Minor) fighting teams.
cargo, property and environment.
No external assistance required.
Note: Incident level maybe Note: Note: Equipment is defined as
escalated to higher level if Minor hull rupture - Vessel any equipment or machinery
deemed necessary by the does not require repairs whose failure will have an
reviewer immediately impact either on the
propulsion, steering or
Major hull rupture - Vessel electrical power supply of the
require repairs immediately vessel.
Timeline to create incident
Notification required report
Commercial Loss (related only
to cargo issues such as
overloading, contamination,
Environment Security
cargo equipment failure, cargo
tank / hold inspection failure
etc..)
Spill to sea > 1 m3 of cargo oil,
bunkers or other pollutant. Vessel hi-jacked
Time loss > 24 hours or
Burning non – compliant fuel for Terrorist attack consequential damages > 200,000
period > 12 hours in low sulphur USD Immediately on phone to DPA Within 48 hrs
area. Bomb explosion
USCG or other port state
environmental investigation.
Spill to sea > 0.1 m3, < 1 m3 of Time loss > 12 hours, < 24 hours
cargo oil, bunkers or other Vessel boarded by pirates. or consequential damages >
pollutant. 100,000 USD, < 200,000 USD.
Drugs found on board. Immediately on phone to DPA Within 48 hrs
Burning non – compliant fuel for
>1 hr, < 12 hrs period in low
sulphur area.
Spill contained on board > 100
litres. Time loss > 3 hours, < 12 hours or
Spill to sea < 0.1 m3 of cargo oil, consequential damages > 10,000
bunkers or other pollutant. Stowaways. USD, < 100,000 USD. Immediately on phone to DPA Within 48 hrs
Burning non – compliant fuel for
less than 1 hr in low sulphur area.
Vessel chased by pirates w/o
Spill contained on board. Qty > 10 boarding Time loss upto 3 hours or
Litres, < 100 Litres. consequential damages < 10,000 Immediately on phone to Fleet
Theft USD. Superintendent Within 48 hrs
Unauthorised boarding (not
pirates)
Timeline to complete
Timeline to complete review
Fleet Flash Investigation level investigation (from date of Review by (from date of incident)
incident)
Lead investigator and team
composition - DPA decision in
consultation with Fleet Director -
Yes QA, 'EEn, FST or External 90 days FST Manager 105 days
investigator (as applicable)
FST Manager - if investigated by QA
If applicable DPA decision - QA (if possible) 60 days QA - if investigated by FST 70 days
Investigation by vessel
If applicable superintendent 45 days Fleet Manager 55 days
If applicable Investigation by vessel 30 days Fleet Suptd and Fleet Manager 40 days
Timeline to complete approval
Approval by (from date of incident) Detailed investigation report Incident close out by
DPA in consultation with Fleet 120 days Yes Fleet Director
Director
DPA 80 days If applicable DPA
FST 62 days If applicable Fleet Manager
FST 47 days If applicable Fleet Superintendent
Undesired events outside the definition of incident (For critical
equipment failure follow HSQEEn 05.04)
Undesired events include:
• Property damage e.g.
- Mooring rope parting not leading to an incident
- Anchor damage / loss
- Heavy weather damage
- Third party property damage not falling under incident
category
• Contained spills less than 10 Ltrs
• Commercial delays not falling under incident category
• Cyber attack
• Machinery failures with losses equal to or more than
10000 $
Investigation and follow up procedure:
• The vessel shall capture above undesired events as
CARs (type: S-Undesired Event) in NS Enterprise
• The vessel shall correct the CAR after completing the
investigation.
• The vessel superintendent shall verify the CAR and
capture identified Corrective Actions as pending defect
• Cyber attack
• Machinery failures with losses equal to or more than
10000 $
Investigation and follow up procedure:
• The vessel shall capture above undesired events as
CARs (type: S-Undesired Event) in NS Enterprise
• The vessel shall correct the CAR after completing the
investigation.
• The vessel superintendent shall verify the CAR and
capture identified Corrective Actions as pending defect
WO's within the CAR.
• The vessel / vessel superintendent shall complete the
pending defect WO’s as applicable.
• The fleet manager shall close the CAR after verifying
closure of all pending defect WO’s.
Notes:
1. The vessel superintendent shall prepare simplified
investigation report in case we have to share the
investigation report with the external parties. FST to
review the report if it has to be shared with an oil major.
2. Machinery failures with losses < 10000 $ to be
captured as Failure WO's in vessel PMS.
