HSQE

Take control of safety, compliance, and quality across your fleet with a powerful maritime safety management system that ensures full ISM Code compliance and efficient risk management.

Maintain safety and meet regulations

Ensure full compliance with ISM, TMSA, and global maritime standards through structure and documentation.

Reduce risks across your fleet

Identify hazards, manage incidents, and implement preventive actions with risk assessment and reporting tools.

Work smarter with synchronized data

Drive fleet-wide HSQE control with central data, synced updates, and task lists for safer operations.

Overview

Ensure HSQE compliance

Unstructured safety and quality work makes it hard to stay compliant. SERTICA HSQE centralizes your Safety Management System (SMS) for ships, giving you clear oversight to protect your crew and meet maritime regulations.

Introduction

Maritime safety management data in one powerful system

Connect all your safety, quality, and compliance processes in one platform with SERTICA HSQE. Avoid scattered spreadsheets and disconnected tools, and always work with the same accurate data by centralizing management and synchronizing information between ship and shore.

Supervise your fleet in one place, keep daily tasks on track, and ensure transparency that saves time, reduces errors, and helps you comply with ISM Code, TMSA, and SIRE 2.0.

Keep your crew safe and your operations efficient with a single source of truth for all HSQE activities.

System

The HSQE system

The core HSQE system equips you with the tools needed to manage safety, quality, and compliance across your fleet. From incident reporting to risk assessments, it streamlines workflows, standardises routines, and ensures full alignment with maritime regulations.

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Activity Management

Plan, manage and track all types of activities such as dockings, surveys, audits and inspections.
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Analytics

Decision-making support through advanced analysis of fleet data, including KPIs and dry dock analysis.
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Document Management

Organize, manage and distribute documents safely and efficiently between office and vessel.
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SYNC

Synchronize data between SERTICA and other third-party systems to increase the level of automation.

Add-on Modules

Expand your HSQE solution with additional modules tailored to your specific safety and compliance needs, so you only pay for what truly adds value to your fleet operations.

Testimonials

What our clients say

Maritime professionals rely on SERTICA’s vessel safety management system to simplify compliance, improve safety, and gain control of daily HSQE operations across their fleets.

Maritime businesses digitalizing their procurement with SERTICA

Customer Case

TARBIT increases their accuracy of documentation during inspections

Marine Superintendent Emma Hermansson from TARBIT shares how the SERTICA Inspection App transformed inspections onboard the TARBIT Bitonia. By digitalizing their processes, TARBIT optimized inspections for greater efficiency and compliance, including readiness for SIRE 2.0. Emma highlights her favourite features of the app and offers valuable advice for future users aiming to implement a successful digital inspection strategy.

Benefits

Unlock the value of a maritime safety management system

SERTICA HSQE turns fragmented safety and compliance work into a unified, proactive process that protects your crew and ensures regulatory compliance. By connecting people, systems, and data across ship and shore, you apply maritime safety management with clarity and control.

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The strategic benefits of a maritime safety management system

Track every safety event from first report through resolution and analysis

Safety management isn’t just about recording data, it’s about managing it from start to finish. With SERTICA HSQE, log incidents, assign corrective actions, and follow up until closure. Analyze the outcomes to identify trends and feed insights back into your safety strategy, ensuring continuous improvement across your fleet.

SERTICA ensures nothing gets lost in the process. From the moment an incident occurs to the insights that make your fleet safer.

Safeguard lives, reduce incidents, and protect your business reputation

Maritime safety management isn’t just paperwork—it’s about keeping people safe and preventing costly disruptions. SERTICA HSQE helps you proactively manage risks, track crew training, and ensure your fleet complies with international standards like ISM, TMSA, and SIRE 2.0. Avoid incidents that threaten both lives and your bottom line.

Automate HSQE processes and reduce time spent on paperwork and manual tasks

Staying compliant doesn’t have to mean more work. SERTICA HSQE simplifies document control, certificate tracking, and audit preparations. You can automate reminders for certificate renewals and IHM documentation, manage version histories, and quickly retrieve documents during audits or vetting. With consistent approval flows that reduce errors and far less time spent chasing paperwork, your team can focus on safety rather than administration.

With SERTICA, you achieve compliance without sacrificing your team’s valuable time.

Shift from reactive incident management to proactive safety improvements

A safety-first culture goes beyond compliance—it’s about preventing issues before they occur. SERTICA HSQE empowers you to identify hazards, analyze incident trends, and implement preventive measures. Encourage your crew to report observations and near misses, transforming them into valuable insights that protect both people and operations.

We support you every step of the way

Project Manager

One reliable point of contact from start to finish

Active support

Gain success with our live support and customer success manager.

Industry experts

Developed inhouse by marine experts in collaboration with maritime customers.

Insights

Become an expert in our maritime safety management software

Explore every aspect of maritime safety management with insights, expert guides, webinars, and real-life cases showing how a vessel safety management system like SERTICA can improve compliance, safety, and fleet-wide performance.

Frequently Asked Questions

Maritime Safety Management

How to ensure document control within the SMS – Safety Management System

Effective document control is essential for shipping companies to comply with international safety standards, particularly under the ISM Code. It involves managing, updating, and distributing safety-related documents such as procedures, checklists, and reports in a structured and traceable way.

Poor document control can lead to outdated procedures, audit findings, or even safety incidents. A reliable system must ensure that all crew and office personnel have access to the latest approved versions of critical documents, with a clear history of changes and accountability.

SERTICA ensures robust document control within the SMS – Safety Management System by providing centralized access to all safety-related documents and tasks. Users can revise documents through a built-in approval workflow, ensuring only authorized and reviewed content goes live.

Key features of document control in SERTICA include:

  • Centralized document access for both onboard and onshore users
  • Approval workflows to ensure only verified content is published
  • Automated change tracking with a detailed changelog
  • Real-time updates that eliminate outdated information
  • Version control to maintain clarity and compliance across the fleet
  • Role-based notifications to alert the right personnel when action is needed

Unlike paper-based systems, SERTICA guarantees transparency, reduces human error, and keeps your entire team aligned with the latest safety protocols.

What is a risk management software for ships?

In the maritime industry, risk management software is a digital tool used to systematically identify, assess, and reduce safety-related risks onboard ships and across entire fleets. It helps ensure compliance with safety standards and supports a proactive safety culture by documenting hazards, tracking incidents, and implementing corrective actions. An effective system not only minimizes risk but also improves decision-making, operational efficiency, and audit readiness.

SERTICA acts as a comprehensive risk management software by enabling shipping companies to proactively control safety risks across all operations—onboard and ashore.

Key features of SERTICA’s risk management capabilities include:

  • Structured risk assessments using customizable risk matrices
  • Incident and near-miss tracking with follow-up actions
  • Corrective and preventive action (CAPA) management
  • Real-time visibility across the fleet for informed decision-making
  • Centralized platform connecting vessel and office workflows
  • Audit-ready records to support regulatory and vetting compliance

SERTICA empowers maritime operators to move from reactive to proactive safety management, reducing accidents, improving safety culture, and protecting both people and assets.

How to track safety management certificates onboard ships?

In maritime operations, managing Safety Management Certificates is a critical part of ISM Code compliance. These certificates must be kept up to date, properly documented, and readily accessible for audits or inspections. Manual tracking methods are time-consuming and prone to error, which can result in compliance issues, delays, or even detentions. A digital solution ensures accuracy, accountability, and efficiency across the fleet.

SERTICA tracks Safety Management Certificates by centralizing all certificate data within its integrated Safety Management System. It streamlines the entire proces, from uploading and renewal planning to verification and notification.

Key features of SERTICA’s certificate management include:

  • Centralized storage and access to all safety certificates
  • Easy uploading and version control
  • Automated reminders for renewals and verifications
  • Certificate history tracking and change logs
  • Grouping of certificates by type, vessel, or department
  • Role-based notifications to ensure timely follow-up

By reducing manual workload and ensuring full traceability, SERTICA strengthens your compliance processes and makes certificate management more efficient across your fleet.

How to comply with ISM code and other regulations?

Compliance with the ISM Code and international maritime regulations is essential for safe and efficient fleet operations. To stay compliant, shipping companies must document, monitor, and continuously improve their Health, Safety, Quality, and Environmental (HSQE) practices. Manual methods often fall short in traceability, consistency, and audit readiness—making digital systems critical for modern compliance strategies.

SERTICA HSQE is specifically developed to support compliance with the ISM Code and a wide range of maritime regulations, including IMO, SOLAS, MARPOL, and other industry standards. It enables companies to centralize safety and environmental management, ensuring structured control and transparency across the fleet.

Key features that support regulatory compliance with SERTICA HSQE include:

  • Digital management of HSQE processes in full alignment with the ISM Code
  • Structured documentation of procedures, policies, and manuals
  • Tracking and handling of non-conformities and corrective actions
  • Audit and inspection management with full traceability
  • Configurable filters for specific ISM chapters and inspection requirements
  • Centralized platform that connects ship and shore operations

How to comply with Tanker Management and Self Assessment (TMSA)?

Tanker Management and Self Assessment (TMSA) is a best-practice framework used by tanker operators to measure and improve their safety and environmental performance. To comply with TMSA, companies must document their processes, track performance indicators, and demonstrate continuous improvement across multiple elements—including risk management, incident reporting, and operational procedures.

SERTICA HSQE helps tanker operators meet TMSA requirements by digitalizing these safety, quality, and environmental processes in a single, integrated platform. It offers structured tools aligned with TMSA elements for:

  • Audits
  • Inspections
  • Incident reporting
  • Risk assessments

 

SERTICA enables continuous improvement, traceability, and best practice documentation to support TMSA submissions and vetting inspections. The built-in TMSA tool simplifies annual reviews and self-assessments, helping operators manage risks, enhance compliance, and improve both operational performance and TMSA scores.