Every year we undertake a range of planned and responsive activities to keep people safe and to protect the marine environment.
Compliance activities during the past year were conducted in accordance with the 2022-23 National Compliance Plan and focused on higher risk areas informed by safety data.
A summary of our business-as-usual compliance activities can be found in the:
Our performance against the focus areas identified in the 2022-23 National Compliance Plan are detailed below.
2022-2023 focus area measured performance
Focus area 1: Port and flag state measured performance
| Desired outcome | Performance measure | 2022/23 results | Key | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Risk Area 1: Continue with target inspection rates based on vessel priority rating. * | Priority group | Target inspection rate | Achieved inspection rate | |
| Priority 1 | 80% | 87.9% | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ | |
| Priority 1 | 60% | 68.1% | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ | |
| Priority 1 | 40% | 45.5% | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ | |
| Priority 1 | 20% | 25.1% | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ | |
| Risk Area 2: Planned maintenance | Develop and publish education campaign, including safety bulletin | Quarter 1 | Published on 4 October 2022 | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ |
| Conduct detailed planned maintenance inspections during routine PSC | 200 inspections | During PSC inspections, detailed reviews of planned maintenance systems were undertaken following 200 inspections. This has resulted in multiple detentions. | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ | |
| Risk Area 3: Fire safety | Develop and publish safety bulletin | Quarter 3 | Published on 29 March 2023 | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ |
| Risk Area 4: Water/weather tight integrity and conditions | Develop and publish education campaign | Quarter 2 | AMSA completed a safety campaign focusing on water/weathertight integrity and conditions. The 'Watertight weathertight integrity ships visiting Australian ports' campaign material was supported through social media with education material. During the 3-month campaign, 9,171 people visited the website campaign hub, resulting in 22,767 page views. | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ |
| Conduct detailed water and weather tight integrity inspections during routine PSC | 200 inspections | During PSC inspections, AMSA continued to focus on water and weathertight integrity. | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ | |
| Risk Area 5: Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) Tokyo MoU Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) | Conduct STCW Concentrated Inspection Campaign | Quarter 1 Quarter 2 | As part of the Tokyo, Paris and Indian Ocean MOU AMSA conducted the CIC on STCW. The preliminary results can be found on the Tokyo MOU website. | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ |
| Risk Area 6: Cargo securing on ships | Publish information on cargo securing | Ongoing | Social media campaign completed on 9 June through the promotion of Marine Notice 02/2022 – Proper stowage and securing of cargo containers. | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ |
| Conduct detailed cargo securing inspections during routine PSC | Ongoing | As part of routine PSC inspections, the adequacy of cargo securing devices, both fixed and portable, was and continues to be inspected as part of AMSA’s standard PSC process. | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ | |
| Risk Area 7: Regional VIC – Verified Gross Mass measurement inspections | Conduct 3 focussed inspections | Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 4 | VGM reviews were conducted each quarter, but logistics of the supply chain were more complicated and opaque than originally anticipated. It was identified that the original targets could not be achieved. This will carry over to this NCP (23-24) with a modified approach. | Within threshold ✓ |
| Risk Area 8: Regional NSW – Grain inspections | Conduct 25 onboard grain inspections | Quarter 3 | 25 Inspections completed as part of a focused campaign. Onboard Grain inspections will continue periodically in the future as required but will not have the same focus as this year. 25 Grain shipboard assessments were carried out with a reported high level of compliance. | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ |
Focus area 2: Maritime Labour Convention measured performance
| Desired outcome | Performance measure | 2022/23 results | Key | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Risk Area 1: Living and working conditions | 100% of complaints are followed up | Ongoing | 1 July 22 – 30 June 23 257 complaints received and closed | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ |
Focus area 3: Domestic commercial vessels measured performance
| Desired outcome | Peformance measure | 2022/23 results | Key | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Risk Area 1: Continue to target inspection rates based on vessel priority rating* | Priority group | Target inspection rate | Achieved inspection rate | |
| Priority 1 | 80% 940 | 7491 | Outside threshold | |
| Priority 2 | 30% 924 | 3942 | Outside threshold | |
| Priority 3 | 10% 282 | 281 | Within threshold ✓ | |
| Priority 4 | 2% 315 | 1173 | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ | |
| Conduct at sea inspection campaigns with our compliance partners* | 60 days at sea with our compliance partners | 76 inspections completed | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ | |
| Risk Area 2: Risk assessment | Conduct compliance campaign, including education campaign | Quarter 2 | Due to the maturity of risk assessments and safety management by this sector of industry, a decision was made to go straight into the focused inspection campaign. The FIC was completed in February 2023. | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ |
| Quarter 3 - 100 inspections | Inspection campaign ran between November 2022 - February 2023. See the FIC results. | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ | ||
| Risk Area 3: Overdue periodic surveys | Conduct review and engage, including education campaign | Quarter 1 Quarter 2 | AMSA built an extra functionality within our systems to generate automatic surveys overdue letters. | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ |
| Focus Area 4: Planned maintenance | Conduct compliance campaign, including education campaign | Quarter 3 | AMSA completed a safety education campaign focusing on planned maintenance for domestic commercial vessels. The 'Planned maintenance DCV' campaign material was supported through social media with education material. | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ |
| Quarter 4 - 200 inspections | 286 inspections were conducted focusing on planned maintenance. | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ | ||
| Focus Area 5: MO505 Certificates of Competency – National Law – 2023 amendments | Develop and publish education campaign | Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 | The 'Changes domestic certificates competency - new MO 505' information hub went live in November 2022. New Marine Order 505 implemented from January 2023. | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ |
| Risk Area 6: Regional NSW - Onboard familiarisation SMS | Develop and publish education campaign | Quarter 4 | Office of Transport Safety Investigations (OTSI) is leading this campaign. OTSI have conducted a survey to understand the extent of the problem and will continue to manage this project. | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ |
| Risk Area 7: Regional QLD –Passenger vessel fire preparedness | Conduct 200 onboard inspections | Quarter 1 and Quarter 2 With Berthing – 150 Without Berthing – 50 | Operation Phoenix completed with 176 Inspections conducted. | Within threshold ✓ |
| Risk Area 8: Regional WA & NT - Passenger vessel tender operations | 60 inspections | Notification published on amsa.gov.au October 2022 51 inspections were conducted. It was identified that the number of tenders operations in WA and NT did not reach 60. | Within threshold ✓ | |
Focus area 4: Search and rescue measured performance
| Desired outcome | Performance measure | 2022/23 results | Key | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Risk Area 1: Inadvertent beacon alerts in DCV’s | Develop and publish education campaign | Quarter 1 | Education campaign completed focusing on inadvertent beacon activations. Included in Survey Matters January 2023 and | Met target/On track ✓ ✓ |
*Performance Measure is based on (2022) data
Footnotes
1 2AMSA’s domestic commercial vessel (DCV) targeting prioritisation model is in early stages of implementation and under constant refinement based on DCV inspection results. The model has been updated for the 2023/24 financial year after annual review and will continue to be refined with the goal of identifying and prioritising higher risk DCV operations for inspection.