A safety management system (also referred to as an SMS) is a systematic approach to managing safety.

We are responsible for handling health and safety issues for personnel on prescribed ships that are engaged in trade or commerce on international and domestic voyages.

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Marine Order 55 (Vessels carrying industrial personnel) 2024, requires that industrial personnel have appropriate safety training prior to embarking on a vessel.

How to get an International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW) Certificate of safety training (CoST) (STCW Reg VI/1) if you are serving or have served in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

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: 

An online learning program providing an awareness of how AMSA combats pollution in the marine environment.

Survey modifiers are high risk operations and vessel attributes that change the survey and other requirements that would otherwise apply to the vessel.

These general exemptions are now superseded or repealed. Superseded and repealed exemptions may affect how the national system works for you.

Our regulatory program is prepared annually and contains details of planned and completed changes to our regulatory instruments.

This handbook is an information resource for those involved in the transport of dangerous goods intended to be shipped by sea.

We cannot process or issue any certificate or endorsement if your application is incomplete.

Find out what marine orders are, why they exist and how they are written.