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.

This safety alert draws the attention of vessel operators to the importance of planned maintenance in ensuring safe operation of domestic commercial vessels.

The National Plan uses a risk based approach to reduce the impact of maritime environment emergencies.

Explore key trends and safety insights from reported incidents in our annual reports.

Trajectory models can help predict spill behaviour in the marine environment. If you are from one of our National Plan partner agencies, you can request a spill trajectory model when an oil or chemical spill occurs.

This marine notice draws attention to responsible navigational practices which masters and officers in charge of a navigational watch on ships operating in Australian waters should follow.

In this edition we talk about recent surveyor audits.

Ships that are not operated and managed to meet applicable standards, and relevant Australian laws, pose an increased risk to seafarers, other ships and the marine environment. These ships may be refused access or granted conditional entry to Australian ports

Descriptions of the courses available to responders under the National Plan for Maritime Environmental Emergencies.

Enhanced fishing gear requirements are being developed in talks at the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

Report of the Incident Analysis team into the response by the National Plan to Combat Pollution of the Sea by Oil and Other Noxious and hazardous Substances, to the Montara Wellhead Platform incident, March 2010.

Our search and rescue incidents from 2016–17.

South Australia hosted the 2017 National Plan Exercise from 5 to 7 December in Adelaide.

This marine notice is to remind livestock shippers, vessel owners and operators, and the masters of livestock vessels of their obligations to provide and use accurate information in the calculation of vessel stability.

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has developed tools to support the implementation of the low sulphur fuel limit.

In this edition we give guidance on managing some of the changes mentioned in Schedule 1 of MO503, explain electrical plan approval requirements, and more.

We maintain a database which assists us to calculate the risk factor of a vessel. This lets us target elevated risk vessels for inspection. 

How to comply with low sulphur fuel requirements.