The standard has been re-named from Arrangement, accommodation and personal safety to Wheelhouse visibility, escape, accommodation and personal safety to better reflect the content of the standard.
Key changes
Several fatalities in recent years have resulted in coronial recommendations about items contained within NSCV Part C1 – wheelhouse visibility, escape, accommodation and personal safety.
Personal safety
- Improvements to strength and testing standards for continuous safety rails on pilot vessels
Escape and evacuation
- Clarifying the requirements for assembly stations,
- Improvements to Emergency escape signage and escape lighting.
Accommodation spaces
- Updates to align with national and international standards for:
- noise levels,
- sanitation facilities,
- air quality in enclosed areas, and
- bunk sizes.
Wheelhouse visibility
- Improving and clarifying content for wheelhouse visibility
Make public transport vessels safer
- Establishing ‘no climb zones’ around the perimeter of vessels to make it harder for children to fall overboard
We have amended NSCV Part C1 to address these issues and improve the overall format to make it easier to understand and apply the standard. The changes also aim to better align the standard with current international and national standards.
The new NSCV Part C1 will only apply to newly constructed vessels and vessels that undergo modifications to the arrangement, accommodation, and personal safety aspects of the vessel.
Read the standard
For detailed information, read the updated standard.
A reform process to modernise the Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport 2002 is currently underway. Through this process, new accessibility requirements for removeable gangways will be moved into the Transport Standards. The Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts will commence consultation on an exposure draft of the updated Transport Standards soon. To stay informed, email disabilitytransport@infrastructure.gov.au.