This marine notice highlights the need for shipowners, operators, masters and crews to ensure safe working arrangements are in place for any work involving height and the risk of falling.

Being a seafarer can be demanding at the best of times.

Become a coastal pilot and contribute to the safety of ships in the Torres Strait and Great Barrier Reef.

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

A particularly sensitive sea area (PSSA) is given special protection because of its vulnerability to damage from international shipping activities.

If you are serving or have served in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) as a Maritime Warfare Officer, this information explains how to qualify for an International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarer (STCW) certificate of competency for a: Chief mate Master less than 3000 GT Master

All domestic commercial vessels are required to have a national law certificate of survey—unless an exemption applies.

In this safety lesson, veteran trawl fisher Mark Millward explains what he has learned from involvement in person overboard incidents. Mark has operated in the Queensland East Coast and Torres Strait Prawn Trawl Fisheries for over 40 years.

Our process for conducting Registered training organisation evaluations.

These general exemptions are now superseded or repealed. Superseded and repealed exemptions may affect how the national system works for you.

A guide to our privacy policy.

In rough weather, early in the morning of 24 May, about 50 containers were lost overboard from the Singapore-flagged container ship APL England. Read our regular updates.

Our search and rescue incidents from 2013–14.

We are Australia’s national maritime safety regulator for domestic commercial vessels that operate within Australian waters.

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Vessels refused access to Australian ports and vessels given warnings in relation to serious deficiencies.

Our search and rescue incidents from 2016–17.

Procedures for STCW courses provided by Registered training organisations including e-learning, distance learning and blended learning, GMDSS ROC and short courses.