AMSA’s Modern Slavery Statement

General Structure

AMSA’s organisational structure consists of:

1. the AMSA Board, appointed by the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development, comprised of:
   (i) Chairperson
   (ii) Deputy Chairperson
   (iii) CEO
   (iv) a person occupying an office in the portfolio department; and
   (v) five other members.
2. the Executive team, and
3. five operational and service areas:
   (i) Operations Division
   (ii) Response Division
   (iii) Policy and Regulation Division
   (iv) Corporate Services Division; and
   (v) Future Operations Taskforce.

Australian Business Number

AMSA’s hold the ABN 65 377 938 320 number on the Australian Business Register.

AMSA does not own or control any other entities.

Registered office and locations

AMSA head office is 82 Northbourne Ave Braddon ACT 2612

AMSA has another 20 office locations across Australia.

Primary Role

AMSA is Australia’s national agency responsible for safety of commercial vessels and ships, preventing and responding to ship based marine pollution and marine search and rescue.

AMSA’s primary role is to:

• promote maritime safety and protection of the marine environment
• prevent and combat ship-sourced pollution in the marine environment
• provide infrastructure to support safe navigation in Australian waters
• provide a national search and rescue service to the maritime and aviation sectors
• provide, on request, services to the maritime industry on a commercial basis
• provide, on request, services of a maritime nature on a commercial basis to the Commonwealth and/or states and territories.

AMSA has a role in ensuring international conventions such as to the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) and the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) are maintained while international vessels are in Australian waters.

Employees and representatives

AMSA has approximately 454 employees, including a permanent representative in London, United Kingdom.

AMSA also delegates powers to officials within relevant State maritime agencies and police forces to enable compliance activities.

Countries of operation

While AMSA is primarily based in Australia and servicing Australia’s territorial waters, it also:

• conducts education and training campaigns within the Pacific region
• assists in regional search and rescue activities where requested; and
• is responsible for conducting flag State control inspections (Australian ships) in overseas ports; and

It has 21 offices throughout Australia.

Investments

AMSA has investments with several top credit rated banks to provide a ready source of income in the event of a major pollution incident.

AMSA’s Stakeholders

AMSA’s stakeholders include, but are not limited to:

• our regulated community - domestic commercial vessel industry, shipping industry and seafarers
• Maritime service providers and partners—including navigation, pollution response, maritime and aviation search and rescue and contractors
• Australian Government, state and territory governments and their agencies
• International maritime community; and
• the Australian community

Types of supply chains

AMSA’s supply chains are with various suppliers and specialists from Australia and internationally, including those with expertise in search and rescue, environmental emergencies, maintaining aids to navigation, and regulating domestic commercial vessels and international vessels entering Australian waters.

Control of supply chains

Supply chains are controlled with strict contracting arrangements as defined by the Commonwealth Procurement Rules.

Suppliers to AMSA are required to comply with any laws, statutes, regulations, by-laws, ordinances, or subordinate legislation.

Disclosures: AMSA contracts valued at or above AUD$400,000 (GST inclusive) are reported on AusTender: https://www.tenders.gov.au/.

AMSA contracts valued at or above AUD$100,000 (GST inclusive) are published on the AMSA website biannually as required under the Murray Motion: https://www.amsa.gov.au/about/reporting-and-accountability/tenders-and-contracts.

Major suppliers

Major services are listed in the table below. These services provide long term and stable supply, enabling AMSA to achieve its objectives.

AMSA’s operations and supply chains cross many industries and sectors from call centre labour hire to search and rescue operations, stationery to construction of Aids to Navigation (AtoNs). These industries and sectors have complex multi-tiered downstream supply chains that span various industries and countries.
AMSA has conducted a risk assessment on major contracts and supply chains. This assessment is based on the following risk matrix:

AMSA Risk Assessment

It is unlikely that AMSA’s current known and immediate supply chain has risks which meet the threshold for serious exploitation as defined by the Act.

Appendix 1 describes a list of modern slavery indicators which can be used to identify the risks of our major suppliers. They consider:

• Sector and industry risks
• Product and service
• Geographic risk
• Entity risks

The result of assessing the indicators and applying the Department of Home Affair’s Cause, Contribute and Linked (CCL) model is an internal risk and control table which AMSA will update as it improves its awareness and understanding of the risk of modern slavery.

AMSA acknowledges that:

• visibility of the risks of modern slavery practices in our full downstream supply chains is limited
• modern slavery risks to AMSA will change over time as operational requirements change and our understanding of our supply chains improves; and
• identified contracts/supply chains include a risk that there may be links to modern slavery further down the supply chain that are outside of AMSA’s control and that are not visible to AMSA.

Generic Controls

AMSA has a range of controls to ensure that where possible our suppliers do not contribute to the risk of modern slavery, including:

• inclusion of terms and conditions relating to modern slavery in AMSA request for tender (RFT) and evaluation documentation
• use of AMSA contract terms and conditions by preference identifying specific legislative compliance requirements
• utilising whole of government purchasing agreements and panels including Travel, Digital Marketplace and Fleet leasing
• specific onsite contract management and monitoring of major contracts; and
• specific thresholds established to determine appropriate levels of contract management

Due Diligence and Remediation Process

Where a risk of modern slavery is identified AMSA will continue to provide education to staff on any potential risks/impacts and possible controls. This may include closer due diligence over suppliers, any subcontractors and major suppliers.

AMSA continues to identify ongoing areas of concern to determine any specific areas that should be more closely monitored, including additional clauses in contracts and other procurement documentation as appropriate.

AMSA processes and procedures have helped to assess and identify any potential risks in our approaches to market, contracts and supply chains. Whilst no specific risks or issues have been identified, AMSA is confident that our controls ensure that there is a continued very low risk of modern slavery - and that where risks are present - they will be identified and mitigated.

AMSA has implemented two key actions - outlined in our first Modern slavery Statement:

Continuous improvement and future actions

AMSA:

• will identify occurrences of modern slavery through the specific clauses contained within Approach to Market documents (sourced through Department of Finance ‘Clausebank’). In addition, AMSA contract managers will continue to work with current providers to minimise any issues relating to modern slavery, supported by the Procurement Team
• is committed to providing ongoing procurement training sessions to relevant staff, including information on modern slavery
• maintains a list of potential risks in an internal modern slavery risk and control table, strengthening AMSA’s understanding of, and capacity to, address and mitigate modern slavery risks
• continues to review policies and procedures and consider amendments to include references to modern slavery, including procurement and contract templates
• will establish a mechanism within contracts to support confidential reporting of modern slavery risks and incidences in operations and supply chains
• will provide an approximate breakdown on the largest areas of expenditure, and specific actions implemented in these areas to address modern slavery; and
• will develop specific metrics to demonstrate our performance addressing occurrences of modern slavery and other harmful practices if required.