Read a transcript of the webinar 'Changes to safety management systems requirements' held 19 March 2025.

This page contains a list of past changes to exemptions.

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Get the latest insights from vessel inspections including detentions, common safety risks and compliance performance. 

Lives continue to be lost every year in Australia when people go overboard from vessels, without a lifejacket. The simple truth is lifejackets save lives, but only if they’re worn. It’s time to get on board with lifejacket safety.

These general exemptions are now superseded or repealed. Superseded and repealed exemptions may affect how the national system works for you.

Find local suppliers of fuel oil in Queensland.

In this edition we look at the most common reasons for certificate of survey refusal.

Under the National Plan, we have marine pollution response equipment positioned in strategic locations around Australia to support response to an incident.

Under Marine Order 503 a transitional vessel is an existing vessel that has: 

Carry the type of lifejacket required for your vessel's highest service category. You can choose self-inflating, manual inflating or foam buoyancy lifejackets.

We work with government and industry to respond to pollution incidents under the National Plan for Maritime Environmental Emergencies.

From 1 July 2018, new survey requirements for domestic commercial vessels apply. This includes changes to marine order 503 to apply the new periodic survey requirements to all vessels required to be in survey—existing, transitional and new vessels.

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Purpose To ensure that navigation corridors are used appropriately when planning on ECDIS, and to ensure that a voyage plan approved by the ship’s Master is executed within the planne

The following statistics relate to the complaints received by AMSA since we issued Marine notice 04/2020 (expired 30 September 2020) and Marine notice 10/2020 (expired 28 February 2021).

Advisory note for the offshore petroleum industry on environmental plans and oil pollution emergency plans.

This edition outlines an upcoming campaign on plan approval documentation and fire safety, initial survey recommendations and more.