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 2021-22 national compliance plan and focused on higher risk areas and informed by safety data.
A summary of our business-as-usual compliance activities can be found in the:
- Annual Port State control report
- Maritime Labour Convention Annual Report
- Marine Incidents Annual Reports for Domestic Commercial Vessels
Our performance against the focus areas identified in the 2021-22 annual compliance plan are detailed below.
2021 - 2022 focus area measured3 performance
Key:
| Met Target/On Track ✓✓ | Within Threshold ✓ | Outside Threshold |
| Desired outcome | Performance measure | 2021/22 Results | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port and flag state measured performance | |||
| Continue with target inspection rates based on vessel priority rating. * | Priority Group | Target Inspection Rate | Achieved Inspection Rate |
| Priority 1 | 80% | 84.0% ✓✓ | |
| Priority 2 | 60% | 63.4% ✓✓ | |
| Priority 3 | 40% | 44.5% ✓✓ | |
| Priority 4 | 20% | 30.6% ✓✓ | |
| Develop and publish maritime safety bulletin on navigational safety | Quarter 1 | Published on 22 September 2021 Maritime Safety Awareness bulletin issue 14 – Navigation safety (amsa.gov.au) | |
| Conduct navigational safety campaign | Quarter 1 200 inspections | Navigational Safety FIC conducted over period 1 August - 8 September 2021. AMSA inspected 266 vessels and detained 7 vessels as a direct result of this FIC. ✓✓ | |
| Conduct planned maintenance focused inspection campaign (FIC) | 200 inspections Quarter 3 | A Planned maintenance FIC was conducted from 15 January to 28 February. AMSA undertook 271 inspections during this period, with seven ships being detained due to the FIC. ✓✓ | |
| Publish planned maintenance campaign results | Quarter 4 | The draft report is currently being finalised for submission to the Executive, prior to publishing on the AMSA website. ✓ | |
| Flag State Inspections | 120 | 821 | |
| Maritime Labour Convention measured performance | |||
| 100% of MLC complaints are followed up | Ongoing 100% of complaints are followed up | 100% of Maritime Labour Convention complaints were followed up. ✓✓ 66 complaints were received and investigated in relation to MN04/2020. ✓✓ | |
| Maximum continuous shipboard service on vessels visiting Australia is less than 11 months | <5% of all vessels inspected have a crewmember serving longer than 11 months | Target met. 2.62% of vessels inspected had crewmembers serving longer than 11 months. ✓✓ | |
| Publish results of maximum continuous service inspections | Quarter 4 | These results are published on the AMSA website up until December 2021. Once complaints reverted to pre-COVID levels it was decided that publication of this data will cease beyond December 2021. | |
| AMSA will conduct a focused inspection campaign (FIC) on the hours of work and hours of rest in accordance with the MLC | Quarter 4 200 inspections | Hours of work and rest FIC conducted between 1 May and 17 June 2022. AMSA undertook 282 FICs during this period. The data is still currently being analysed. ✓✓ | |
| Domestic commercial vessels measured performance | |||
| Continue to target inspection rates based on vessel priority rating* | Conduct 2600 vessel inspections | 2299 Inspections conducted2 | |
| Priority Group | Target Number of Inspections | Achieved Number of Inspections | |
| Priority 1 | 1794 | 12863 | |
| Priority 2 | 295 | 473 ✓✓ | |
| Priority 3 | 339 | 347 ✓ | |
| Priority 4 | 172 | 193 ✓✓ | |
| Conduct at sea inspection campaigns with our compliance partners* | 60 days at sea with our compliance partners | 76 days ✓✓ | |
| Six educational campaigns focusing on risk assessment (general), risk assessment of construction barges, smaller passenger carrying operators, fatigue and incident reporting | Quarter 3 Education campaign focusing on risk assessment for DCV’s | This campaign was combined into the education campaigns for construction barges and passenger safety with a focus on risk assessment | |
| Quarter 4 Education campaign focusing on risk assessment of construction barges | Campaign website developed and accessed by over 4,000 users ✓✓ Social media campaign commenced March 2022 with nearly 160k total impressions. ✓✓ 5 workshops held nationally with over 130 industry attendees. ✓✓ Webinar and other resources created and available on campaign website ✓✓ | ||
| Quarter 4 Education campaign focusing on smaller passenger carrying operators | Campaign completed May 2022. Workshops conducted in Queensland, NSW and Western Australia focussing on fleet concentration areas in tourist seasons. ✓✓ | ||
| Quarter 4 Education campaign focusing on improving incident reporting culture | Campaign commenced in May 2022. Campaign website developed and accessed by over 2400 users. ✓✓ Social media campaign commenced in June 2022 with over 162k total impressions. ✓✓ Over 250 “Don’t ignore it, report it” stickers have been distributed to industry. ✓✓ | ||
| Quarter 4 Fatigue education campaign | Campaign content on AMSA website with over 1900 visits ✓✓ Social media campaign June 2022 with over 123k total impressions ✓✓ | ||
| A minimum of three focussed inspection campaigns will also be conducted following delivery of the above education safety campaigns | DCV Safety Management Systems focused inspection campaign | This was included in the focused inspections for passenger vessels and construction barges | |
| Quarter 4 Construction barges joint focused inspection campaign 100 inspections | Construction barge FIC conducted between 1 May and 30 June 2022. AMSA undertook 128 FICs during this period. The data is still currently being analysed. | ||
| Quarter 3 Passenger safety inspection campaign 200 inspections | 186 Inspections completed ✓✓ | ||
| Quarter 1 and 2 Inspection campaign on fishing dories in Queensland 60 inspections | 67 inspections completed. ✓✓ | ||
| Audit campaign on AMSA accredited surveyors >20% of AMSA accredited surveyors | Completed Quarter 2 ✓✓ Target met and work continues risk-based auditing. ✓✓ | ||
| Search and rescue measured performance | |||
| Educational campaign on beacon registrations for all stakeholders | A decrease in the number of unregistered and incorrectly registered beacons | There has been a decrease of 3% in the number of unregistered beacons. The target for incorrectly registered beacons was not met. AMSA will continue to educate industry on the importance of correctly registering beacons. | |
| Environmental measured performance | |||
| Domestic vessel EIAPP compliance audit | Quarter 3 | The Domestic vessel EIAPP compliance audit was conducted in June as part of a MARPOL Education Campaign, and AMSA had 2 results. | |
| Conduct a random sampling program of ship fuel to validate accuracy of the bunker delivery note | Quarter 3 | A random sampling was conducted, and AMSA is awaiting the final report to be produced by the testing establishment | |
| Cargo securing focus for container vessels | 200 inspections | 235 initial cargo securing inspections were conducted. | |
*Performance Measure is based on 2021 data
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Footnotes
1 Due to COVID-19 policy AMSA was unable to travel overseas to conduct inspections of RAV’s overseas. Further to this there were increased numbers of RAV’s transitioning to DCV’s.
2 The target number of inspections were not obtained due to extended lockdowns in New South Wales and Victoria in the first 2 quarters of the financial year.
3 The number of high priority vessels were not obtained, mainly because of the COVID-19 lockdowns, but in addition the target number was taken as a percentage of the number of vessels in the priority 1 group. A significant number of these vessels were found to be inactive when inspection bookings were made.