This marine notice highlights shipowners, operators, masters and crews obligation to ensure safe working arrangements are in place for any work involving a ship’s elevator.

Standards for electrical installations, safety, testing and repair.

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.

Keeping a radio watch saves lives. Use this guidance to set up your radio watchkeeping process and comply with Marine Order 504.

Our regulatory plan is produced annually and contains planned changes to our regulatory instruments.

We implement the regulations under the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 in Australia via supporting legislation which applies to all commercial vessels.

Exercise Barossa was a biannual oil spill response exercise conducted in Adelaide under our National Plan to Combat Pollution of the Sea by Oil and Other Noxious and Hazardous Substances.

Access a range of online training courses you can complete in your own time at your own pace.

Our senior management team runs the day-to-day operations and keeps our Board informed.

A crew member’s arm was crushed between the vessel and a pylon while tending to mooring lines.

We are responsible for leading national policy on vessel traffic services (VTS).

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

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

Read about the changes we have made to the NSCV since 2020.

In this edition we talk about Marine Surveyor Accreditation Guidance Manual – Part 2 , we include a Case Study about Compliance action on an AMS’s accreditation and decks on domestic commercial vessels

A passenger vessel collided with an unseen rock, resulting in the injury of a passenger. The master navigated the vessel into unfamiliar waters that was not a normal or planned part of the passenger tour experience, and not authorised by the tour company. Owners and operators should ensure masters continue to conform to the planned or authorised route for the services they offer.

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.