Australia is a part of the International Maritime Organization — maritime safety and marine pollution prevention are more effective when carried out internationally.
AMSA has released the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) Annual Report 2024, offering a detailed overview of MLC complaints and data received about seafarer living and working conditions in Australian waters.
Our organisation has observed that a number of Administrations are issuing dispensations to ships where a defect has occurred to a critical piece of equipment. There are differing circumstances where we will and will not accept the dispensation.
Seafarers often spend many months working away from family and friends with this situation being made worse if the vessel they are engaged on is involved in a maritime accident
In this edition we talk about Lightship declarations and the law, new surveyor accreditation guidance manual part 2 now available and electrical issues able to be identified by non-electrical periodic surveyors.
The National Maritime Work Health and Safety (WHS) Regulators Forum is a collaborative platform for discussing maritime workplace health and safety. Its main aim is to improve safety for domestic commercial vessels.