Carry the right safety equipment, including lifejackets, life rafts, and first aid kits.

If you have an alternative way of meeting your safety requirements, you can make an equivalent means of compliance application.

If special circumstances mean that you require an extension of time for your vessel's periodic survey, you can make an application under for Marine Safety (Periodic survey, equipment certification and compass adjustment) Exemption (Exemption 06).

How to work out if your current qualifications can be used to support your application for a domestic certificate of competency.

Follow these steps if you wish to operate your vessel commercially outside of the Australian Economic Exclusion Zone (EEZ).

Fees related to registration on the Australian General Shipping Register and Australian International Shipping Register.

This consultation feedback report is based on submissions to us via an online form and Facebook.

We administer the national law, regulations and marine orders in implementing the national system.

Most services for operators and crew of domestic commercial vessels are now provided by us instead of Maritime Safety Queensland.

Radiotelephones, signalling lights, EPIRBs, and satellite communications equipment.

1. The criteria for the issue to a person of a trainee pilot licence are that the person: (a)  is entitled to work in Australia; and (b)  holds: 

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

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

On 6 November 2021, while enroute, a passenger charter (Class 1E) vessel’s inadequately secured swim platform gate opened when a passenger and toddler leant against it causing the two passengers to fall into the water. The investigation identified that there was no locking bolt on the gate, no risk assessments and no passenger verification procedures in place. 

With the introduction of a new revised Marine Order 505 (Certificates of competency) on 1 January 2023 following extensive industry consulta