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The challenge of simultaneous operations in the naval and offshore industry

In the naval industry, safety and coordination are essential concerns. One company in this sector turned to BlueKanGo to rethink how it manages its planned shutdowns. Faced with the complexity of multiple operations in confined spaces, the company chose to digitalise the tracking of work permits and the coordination among subcontractors. The result: greater responsiveness, better traceability, and stronger risk control in a particularly demanding maritime environment.

3 key takeaways – managing simultaneous operations in the naval and offshore industry

  • Coordinating planned shutdowns in the naval industry brings many subcontractors together in confined spaces, making the Health & Safety Department's role critical to avoiding operational conflicts and ensuring safety.
  • Digitalisation through the BlueKanGo platform replaced paper-based, manual processes with a connected system that centralizes work-zone mapping, work permits, and real-time risk monitoring.
  • Digitalisation streamlined coordination, increased traceability, and strengthened efficiency and safety across the group.

The company brings together several thousand employees and works on large-scale industrial projects: cruise ships, military vessels, and electrical substations for offshore wind farms. In a setting where projects follow one another in quick succession and workers are numerous, it is essential to improve performance in workforce oversight and raising hazard awareness.

The challenges: coordinating simultaneous operations and controlling risk

During planned shutdowns, maintenance periods lasting between one and four months, coordination among the many subcontracting companies on site becomes a key issue. Confined spaces, multiple operations, and densely packed work zones increase the risk of operational conflicts.

The objective: to ensure that each task is compatible with the others, in keeping with safety rules and within the allotted timelines. Here, the Health & Safety Department plays a central role. It approves or denies work permits, relying on day-to-day coordination between internal teams and subcontractors.

Manual site tracking: time-consuming and laborious

Until recently, planning and tracking activities relied on email exchanges, Excel files, and paper forms. Each subcontractor had to show up in person on site the day before their work, to declare the tasks planned. These often-repetitive steps wasted time and left little visibility into the status of work permits. Coordination teams had to consolidate the information manually, making the management of simultaneous operations especially complex.

Centralizing and coordinating simultaneous operations with BlueKanGo

To meet these coordination and safety challenges, the company rolled out the BlueKanGo solution. The platform, which works even without an internet connection, makes every worker self-sufficient in the field. It centralizes the mapping of work zones, the online management of work permits, the supervision of subcontractors, and the monitoring of specific risks. Workers can see the status of their requests and authorizations in real time. Coordination meetings draw on reliable data to quickly organize the next steps. When subcontractors arrive, they are cleared by the Health & Safety Department, and compliance confirmation appears immediately in the system.

Results: a powerful lever for controlling risk

The results were immediate. Permit turnaround times dropped sharply. Actions are tracked, monitored, and retrieved in a single click. Subcontractors move forward together, without bottlenecks or confusion. Even during the busiest planned shutdowns, information flows clearly. Safety improves. So does performance. Here, going digital is a powerful lever for controlling risk and transforming efficiency at the heart of a demanding industrial environment.

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