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Guide 03

Logging Work / Rest Hours

Work / Rest Hours is your MLC 2006 / STCW rest record — a half-hour grid you mark each day, with the rolling-window compliance maths done for you automatically.

1. Mark a day

Open a day and long-press any half-hour slot to cycle it between Work, Meal or Drill. Anything left blank is automatically counted as rest — you only ever mark the exceptions, not every rest period.

2. Understand the compliance colours

SeaLog checks your entries against true rolling 24-hour and 7-day windows, not calendar-day shortcuts — the same way an inspector actually assesses compliance. A day shows green when it's compliant, amber when a window is close to its limit, and red when a rest requirement has been breached.

3. Apply a saved pattern

If you work a consistent rotation, save it once as a pattern and apply it to future days in a couple of taps instead of marking the same shift by hand every day.

4. Emergency override and compensatory rest

If an emergency genuinely requires you to work through a protected rest period, log it as an override — this is flagged for the admin to review, and linked compensatory rest is tracked until it's been made up. Admin sees every reported override fleet-wide from the Rest Hours Monitor.

5. Export

Export your record in the official IMO/ILO Model Format at any time — ready to sign, print, or hand to a Port State Control inspector.

Rest Hours only appears once your device has been scanned onto a managed vessel by your ship's admin — a solo/no-vessel Crew Card has no admin monitor to sync against, so the feature stays hidden until then.

Next: see Submitting an Expense.