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Renew your certificate of competency (CoC)
Renew every 5 years.
Certificate of medical fitness for near coastal seafarers (form 1850)
When you renew your CoC, you’ll need to submit this form.
Renew a certificate of operation (CoO) (form 553)
Renew the CoO for your vessel every 5 years.
Keep your operation compliant
Safety management system requirements
Check you're meeting the requirements that came into effect on 1 June 2025.
Is your vessel eligible for a simplified safety management system?
Vessels less than 7.5m long may be eligible.
Navigation and watchkeeping
Make sure your crew have the right qualifications.
When is a general purpose hand certificate required? (PDF,115KB)
Check this if you employ crew who don’t have a ticket yet.
Vessel stability
Requirements and safety best practice for fishing vessels.
Fatigue management
How to manage the risk of fatigue on your vessel.
Lifejackets on fishing vessels
Use examples from Australian fisheries to help you develop a procedure for lifejacket wear.
Checklist: Solo operators (PDF,149KB)
A checklist to help you reduce the risks of working alone, and come home safe.
Safety equipment lists
Safety lessons
- Practical lessons from person overboard incidents - November 2024
- Trawler inpull winch reduces risk of person overboard - August 2024
- Fatigue puts fishing vessel on the rocks - June 2024
- How to develop a safety management system for a fishing vessel (video) - August 2023
- Fatigue contributes to fishing vessel grounding - December 2022
- Safety culture aboard trawlers (video) - December 2017