WRH is a user-friendly application to monitor, record and manage work and rest hour rules at sea.

Shipping is a 24/7 industry with ships’ crews having to work around the clock to operate the ship both at sea and in port.

It is a fact that long work hours and short rest periods may cause fatigue which can result in progressive decline of performance, loss of energy and-even slowed movements and reactions.With the entry of the 2010 Manila amendments to the STCW Convention and the ratification of the 2006 Maritime Labour Convention (MLC 2006), Port State Control will invariably pay increasing attention to ensuring compliance with the requirements for Seafarers rest hours.

The Work and Rest Hours application (WRH) is designed to monitor and prevent eventual non-conformance with STCW and MLC rest hours regimes and produces reports in accordance with the STOW standard that can be presented to Port State Control.

Some exemptions to rest hour regimes are allowed under certain conditions and National administrations are also allowed to implement national rest hour exemptions. WRH, produced and maintained by Spectral Technologies Inc., can apply existing exemptions, which can also be further adapted to cater to future national exemption rules, as and when circumstances dictate WRH can also be set to monitor rest hours in compliance with OPA 90.

WRH is easy to set up and crew work hours are added by either the crews themselves or by their supervisors in a user- friendly graphic environment. WRH will promptly and in real time warn users if any non-conformance is occurring.