When Two Safe Operations Become Unsafe Together
Separate task assessments can miss the hazards created when operations share people, equipment, space or emergency arrangements.
30 October 2026
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Technical articles and professional perspectives across maritime safety, technology and regulation.
The Insights section brings together technical commentary, analysis and professional perspectives from the ICORA MED expert team.
When Everything Turns Red: Risk Matrices and the Alternative-Fuel Transition
Risk matrices remain one of the most widely used tools for screening and communicating risk. As shipping moves toward hydrogen, ammonia and other emerging technologies, the matrix can lose its ability to separate scenarios — for reasons that are specific, identifiable and worth understanding before the output supports a decision.
24 October 2026
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The Accident That Has Not Happened Yet
Maritime history is remembered through its accidents as much as its technologies. The question for this transition is whether a safety system can produce the learning a defining accident forces, without first needing the accident.
29 September 2026
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Four Principles for Ammonia Fuel Safety in Maritime Operations
Preventing release, preventing hazardous accumulation and exposure, detecting releases early, and containing consequences.
25 September 2026
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Fundamentals of Maritime Risk Assessment: From Hazard Identification to Better Decisions
An overview of how maritime risk assessment actually works: defining the operation, identifying hazards, analysing and evaluating risk, and selecting controls, and how alternative fuels, cyber risk and autonomous ships are expanding what needs to be assessed.
25 September 2026
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Hazardous Area Classification on Ships: Principles, Regulatory Basis and Limitations
An overview of how hazardous areas are classified on ships, how the classification relates to the IGF and IGC Codes and the IEC 60079 series, what it is used for and what it does not cover.
21 September 2026
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From HAZID to Operations: Where Alternative-Fuel Risk Information Can Get Lost
The value of a risk assessment depends not only on the quality of the study, but on whether its basis remains connected to the design, operation and changes that follow.
17 September 2026
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