Workplace fatigue remains a significant operational and safety challenge. Analysis of occupational health and demographic factors identified sleep quality, age and tenure as key influences on fatigue levels. The findings highlight opportunities for targeted interventions, workforce wellbeing programmes and smarter job design to enhance performance, safety and productivity overall sustainably.

An intelligent engine monitoring system is strengthening maritime safety by detecting cooling-system faults before they escalate into failure. Built on RS485 Modbus communications, PLC processing, and real-time interfaces, the solution delivers clear alarms, regulatory compliance, and operational visibility. The platform provides a foundation for more advanced predictive maintenance capabilities ahead.

An autonomous boat-control platform combines GPS guidance, microcontroller-based autopilot, and long-range LoRa communications to navigate programmed routes while transmitting real-time position data. By integrating MQTT-enabled monitoring, database connectivity, and web-based oversight, the system enhances situational awareness, remote vessel management, and scalable unmanned maritime operations with efficiency and operational resilience globally.

Fire-risk assessment of oil and LPG storage facilities highlights critical vulnerabilities that can halt production and disrupt offshore operations for months. Using Task Risk Assessment methodology, the analysis identified high-risk hydrocarbon releases and spill scenarios. The findings reinforce the importance of hierarchy-based controls to strengthen safety, resilience, continuity, and planning.

Advanced composite sandwich materials could enhance future minehunting vessel design by delivering lightweight low-magnetic hull structures. Comparing carbon fibre, Kevlar, pineapple-fibre composites and conventional GRP through ASTM-based testing, researchers identified significant strength advantages for hybrid solutions. The findings highlight promising pathways for larger, more capable, and durable naval platforms ahead.

New research into Indonesian Ro-Ro ferry stability highlights challenges in applying dead-ship vulnerability criteria consistently. Using roll-decay and beam-sea model testing, engineers examined key hydrodynamic factors influencing capsizing risk. The findings reveal discrepancies between assessment levels, offering important insights for refining stability standards and enhancing passenger vessel safety overall today.

Transitioning from OHSAS 18001 to ISO 45001 demands more than compliance. By combining gap analysis and SWOT-based planning, the organisation measured readiness, identified improvement priorities, and executed a structured migration strategy. The experience highlights practical pathways for strengthening occupational safety governance, organisational resilience, and long-term competitiveness effectively across maritime sectors.

An innovative glass-bottom tourism vessel could help revitalise post-pandemic coastal travel through advanced propulsion engineering. Using CFD-driven optimisation, researchers developed a ducted-nozzle thrust-vectoring system that concentrates propulsive force more effectively. Simulations across multiple configurations showed average thrust gains of 47%, highlighting opportunities for efficiency, performance, and visitor experience enhancement worldwide.

Accurately reproducing ship motion is critical for evaluating vessels and onboard systems. By combining the Marine Systems Simulator toolbox, inertial measurement data, and a six-degree-of-freedom Stewart platform, researchers reconstructed realistic ship movements with strong fidelity. The methodology supports advanced testing, though accuracy declines as sea-state severity increases during rougher conditions.

Analysis of AIS data reveals how new traffic separation measures in Sunda Strait are reshaping vessel movements and navigational risk. By examining crossing patterns before and after implementation researchers identified the precautionary area as the primary interaction hotspot. The findings provide valuable evidence to support safer traffic management and optimization.

High-volume fly ash concrete is showing strong potential for marine infrastructure durability. Through advanced material characterization and resistivity testing, researchers demonstrated improved resistance to chloride-induced reinforcement corrosion compared with conventional concrete. The findings suggest longer service life, lower maintenance demands, and enhanced resilience for structures operating in aggressive seawater environments.

New insights into ballast tank drainage are improving vessel efficiency and system design. Combining scaled hydraulic experiments with validated CFD volume-of-fluid modelling, researchers accurately predicted drainage behaviour and optimised evaluation methods. The approach enables faster configuration assessment, enhanced operational performance, and more efficient ballast management for future ship designs globally.