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December 2025
In this edition:
- Upcoming AMSA webinar: managing operational stability risks in commercial fishing
- Exemption 31 update: action required for current holders
- Summer safety reminder for hire-and-drive operators
- Webinar recording available: Managing hazardous gases on DCVs
- Save time these holidays—apply with myAMSA
- No lifejacket? No excuses! Start the summer safely
- AMSA end-of-year service arrangements
- Your maritime safety toolkit—Building a simplified SMS
- In case you missed it
- November 2025
In this edition:
- Near coastal seafarers: Save time, apply online
- Last chance to register: Hazardous gases webinar
- Help shape fire safety standards for domestic commercial vessels
- Marine incident report: July–September 2025
- Safety lesson: Passenger jumps overboard during berthing
- Your maritime safety toolkit—Fatigue risk management
- October 2025
In this edition:
- Save time, apply online – with myAMSA!
- Keeping your vessel compliant and safe: What you need to know about inspections
- Upcoming webinar: Hazardous gases
- Is your vessel a safe workplace?
- Don’t ignore it, report it
- Is your float-free EPIRB ready for an emergency?
- Apply now: AMSA scholarship opportunities available
- Shaping safer seas: AMSA’s 2025–26 regulatory program
- September 2025
In this edition:
- Invisible gases. Real risks. Know the symptoms of gas poisoning
- Did you get the lifejacket message?
- Update to domestic commercial vessel construction standards
- Draft standards on marina and boat electrical installations – open for comment
- World Maritime Day: our ocean, our obligation, our opportunity
- Tell us what you need from our website
- Have your say on our performance as a regulator
- August 2025
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- July 2025
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- June 2025
In this edition:
- National Law general exemptions reissued from 1 July 2025
- Changes to better manage the risks of volunteer emergency service operations
- Annual indexation to domestic commercial vessel safety fees
- Have your say: help name AMSA’s new emergency response vessel
- New trends shaping Australia’s domestic fleet
- Monthly domestic commercial vessel marine incident reports
- Garbage management responsibilities for domestic commercial vessel operators
- May 2025
In this edition:
- Are you compliant with new SMS requirements?
- Three sailors rescued from a sinking yacht off the Coral Sea
- Domestic commercial vessel incidents reported in March 2025
- Apply now: AMSA Vocational Near Coastal Seafaring Scholarship
- Working to beat inequality in maritime
- Nominate now: 2025 Australian Search and Rescue Awards
- Receive AMSA's latest news and updates
- April 2025
In this edition:
- Marine Order 504: simplified safety management system
- Watch now: simplified safety management system webinar
- Domestic commercial vessel incidents reported in February 2025
- Sailing exemptions expiring: get your certificate of competency
- Consultation feedback report: exemption for emergency services vessels
- Register now: International Day for Women in Maritime
- Have your say on our performance as regulator
- March 2025
In this edition:
- Marine Order 504: upcoming changes to drug and alcohol policy
- Watch now: new SMS requirements webinar
- Certificate of competency is non-negotiable for domestic commercial vessel operators
- Domestic commercial vessel incidents reported in January 2025
- Safety lesson: Propeller strike injury from poor SMS implementation
- Women in maritime enhancing safety in the Torres Strait
- Register now: upcoming SMS webinar
- February 2025
In this edition:
- Safety recall: Halkey Roberts 3F Single Point Manual inflators in
- Marine Order 91 changes allow for electronic oil record books and UNSP barge exemptions
- Watch now: fatigue risk management webinar
- Safety on the water starts with choosing the right lifejacket
- In case you missed it
- Register now: upcoming SMS webinars
- January 2025
In this edition:
- National Law general exemptions set to expire on 30 June 2025
- No safe access provided: contractor falls overboard while disembarking
- Domestic commercial vessel incidents reported in November 2024
- Upcoming changes to SMS requirements — what you need to know
- AMSA's webinars on new SMS requirements
- Neglecting lifejacket maintenance could cost your life
- Have your say on our performance as regulator
Last updated: 18 December 2025