PsyFyi part of Project CREW

PsyFyi is proud to announce our participation in Project CREW (Continuous Reporting to Evaluate risk and Welfare). This project is aimed at improved safety through near-real-time insight. It’s a collaboration between CHIRP, Norbulk Shipping and PsyFyi to improve safety insight from seagoing crews in near-real-time. The project will run for approximately 9 months, with a final report produced in early 2025.

The concept is simple: volunteer crew members are texted a single question every day, asking them to rate their thoughts regarding their health, well being, workload or safety out of 5. Depending on their response, they are asked no more than 2 follow-up questions seeking further detail. Seafarer identities are anonymised, and the responses combined with others from the same vessel, generating a snap-shot of the crew’s safety, morale and welfare. The questions repeat approximately monthly, so changes through time can be identified and analysed, too.

In tandem, safety incidents and near-misses are recorded and analysed to identify their underlying human factor causes; and Project CREW will look for correlations between safety incident causes and seafarer responses to determine whether incident causes could be identified proactively. If proven, this opens up the prospect that seafarer monitoring could be a viable means of reducing incidents and near-misses.

Read more about PsyFyi’s innovative data collection platform SeaQ here.