Safety lessons every crew member understands
Burando Barging turns text-heavy incident summaries into one-page safety cartoons, so multilingual crews understand each lesson, whatever language they read.
Burando Atlantic Group is a maritime company active in oil and gas transport, bunkering for large sea vessels and other port services around Rotterdam. We worked for Burando Barging, its inland shipping division for fuel oil and lubricants. We partnered with its Quality, Health, Safety and Environment (QHSE) desk.
Challenge
When an accident happens onboard, an independent organisation writes a formal incident report. The QHSE desk condensed each report into a one-page text summary and shared it across the fleet as a lesson learned. But crews are multilingual, and not every sailor reads English, Dutch or German fluently. Part of the message got lost. On a vessel with a crew of four, a printed page often ended up on a shelf, unread. Any visual alternative also had to be technically right, from navigation lights to manifold position, or captains would dismiss it. The result: lessons that never landed, and accidents that could happen again.
Solution
We built a web application that turns an incident description into a one-page cartoon. QHSE staff describe what happened in their own words, and the application does the rest. No prompting skills are needed.
- AI rewrite: turns incident reports or free text into a clear story that follows Burando's guidelines.
- Scene breakdown: plans each panel in detail, including ship layout and equipment.
- Cartoon generation: draws a one-page cartoon with short captions in several languages.
- Archive dashboard: stores every cartoon by date, ready to open and download.
Nothing goes to vessels automatically: the QHSE desk reviews every cartoon and shares it with the fleet.
From incident report to safety cartoon
Making AI cartoons credible for captains and simple for new users
- Analysis We studied the reporting process and the maritime details crews would check first.
- Pipeline design We chose a multi-step AI chain with a rewrite step, so first-time AI users get consistent results.
- Build We built the dashboard and refined the AI instructions until scenes were technically correct, down to the navigation lights.
- Feedback We worked closely with Burando, applied their maritime corrections and simplified the workflow for first-time AI users.
Jonathan van WestendorpLead AI Engineer
Noah van PottenAI EngineerImpact
The QHSE desk now creates safety cartoons on its own, without needing AI experience. Each new incident becomes a visual one-pager that relies on images instead of paragraphs. Crews get the same lesson in a format that is quick to take in, even on a small vessel. Multilingual captions mean understanding no longer depends on reading English, Dutch or German. Burando also plans to convert its historical backlog. The aim is better retention of safety lessons and, over time, fewer repeat accidents. It is one of Burando's first AI tools in daily use, and shows clients how seriously Burando takes crew safety.
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