Crew and welfare · Module 04
Work and rest hours for seafarers
The daily record, the master’s review and the KS-0300 print, with every breach flagged as the rule that was broken.
FOR-2007-06-26-705 § 10
What it is for
The requirement, and the problem
Rest hours are the record a port state control officer asks for first, and the record most likely to be filled in on the morning of the inspection. That is not laziness — it is what happens when the form is a spreadsheet that nobody can reach from a cabin at the end of a watch.
NoRemarks puts the day’s record on the person’s own screen, prefilled from the shift pattern they actually work, editable in the time zone the ship is actually keeping, and available with no signal at all. The four limits are checked as the record is entered, so a breach is discussed on the day it happened rather than discovered in March.
How it works
Three steps, on board and ashore
- 1
The day arrives drawn
Each person’s day is filled in from their watch pattern. They change what was different and confirm it on their own phone.
- 2
The rules are checked as they go
Ten hours in any 24, seventy-seven in any seven days, at most two rest periods — one of six hours — and fourteen hours between them.
- 3
The master reviews and signs
Non-conformities are flagged on the master’s review, the month is signed with a PIN, and the KS-0300 form prints.
Example with demo data
What it looks like
A working picture of the module with demo data from the Ocean Pioneer — the same ship you find in the demo.
Try the demo — no account, in your browser, with the PIN 1234.
- My day — the seafarer’s own record, one screen, works offline
- Master’s review — the week, per person, breaches first
- Rest in any 24 hours12 h≥ 10 h
- Rest in any 7 days82.5 h≥ 77 h
- Longest rest period6 h≥ 6 h
- Between rest periods6 h≤ 14 h
In detail
What the module does
All four limits, each named when it breaks
10 hours in 24, 77 hours in 7 days, no more than two rest periods with one of at least 6 hours, and no more than 14 hours between them. A breach says which rule and by how much, because "non-compliant" tells the master nothing he can act on.
Prefilled from the shift pattern
Six on, six off is typed once as a pattern and proposed every day. The seafarer corrects the exception rather than drawing the whole day, which is the difference between a record kept daily and a record reconstructed monthly.
The master reviews, and the review is a record
A review screen shows the week for every person with the breaches surfaced. The master’s acceptance is signed with a PIN and kept as an append-only version chain — a later correction does not erase what was signed.
Ship time, and the day the ship is keeping
Records belong to the vessel’s time zone, including the days it changes. A clock change does not create a 25-hour day that quietly satisfies a 10-hour rule.
Inspection mode
One screen to hand an inspector: a person, a period, the records and the exceptions, with nothing else on board reachable from it.
The KS-0300 form, printed as the form
The statutory wording of the IMO/ILO record of hours of rest is reproduced, in the language the inspector is reading, and prints to paper that looks like what they expect.
In the app
On the bridge, on deck and in the office
The same records on a phone in a machinery space and on a screen in the office — with no signal, and synchronised when the link returns.
- Records — the archive, by year and month
- Inspection mode — one person, one period, nothing else
The decision
A record you can defend, not a green tick
Some systems hide a breach behind a rounding rule so the month looks clean. That is the worst possible service to a shipowner: it converts a manageable conversation with a chief officer into a finding in a port state control report, with a record that says the company knew and did nothing.
Every breach here is visible, named and retained. The value of the module is that the master sees it the same week, while it can still be fixed by changing a watch rather than by explaining it to an inspector.
Works with
One product, not nineteen
Crew and certificates
Who is on board, what each position must hold, and which certificate expires before the crew change.
FOR-2011-12-22-1523Drills and exercises
Statutory drills per shift and per person, with the departure check that says whether this crew may sail.
SOLAS III/19.3.2Accommodation
Decks, cabins and berths, who sleeps where, and the cleaning record — tied to the watch so nobody is woken.
MLC 2006, Regulation 3.1Insights
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Put one vessel on it for two months
No card and no implementation project. A company adds its own vessel and its own people on its own afternoon — and if it is not for you, you stop, with your data exported first.