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

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.

A timeline of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA’s) involvement in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Under the National Plan, we have marine pollution response equipment positioned in strategic locations around Australia to support response to an incident.

Dispersants can be effective response tools. Use of dispersants is dependent on many factors including timing, properties of the oil, and logistics.

A charter vessel with passengers was conducting a cruise around Sydney Harbour when it narrowly missed an unlit runabout at night. The vessel ran aground, and two attempts to tow the vessel off the sandbank were unsuccessful. The investigation found that the master did not risk-assess the route and respective conditions. The vessel safety management system provided the master with no clear direction on safe routes to follow. The command, control, and communication with and between the crew in relation to emergency procedures and response was ineffective.

The following vessels are our declared off-shore industry vessels and trading vessels that work in inland and near coastal waters.

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

From 1 January 2022, AMSA will provide 24-hour nationwide monitoring of high frequency (HF) radiotelephone distress, urgency and safety communications in Australia.

The Sylvan Arrow was found guilty of discharging an oily mixture into the sea west of Wilson’s Promontory, Victoria on 18 December 1999.

Our search and rescue incidents from 2018–19.

NOPSEMA has been working with state authorities to improve and streamline consultation practices within the offshore petroleum industry, and provide advice on regulatory requirements for offshore petroleum activities.

If you own a vessel in Australia and use it for any commercial, government or research activity, you will need to meet these requirements.

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

Our search and rescue modules provide background information as well as information about preparation, principles of how to conduct a search and rescue operation and how to respond to specific kinds of emergency.

Find out how domestic commercial vessels (DCVs) performed on safety, training, risk assessment and more during our focussed inspections campaign on hazardous gases.

There is increasing use of remotely operated and autonomous technology in Australia and worldwide across a range of fields.

In this edition we explain about National Law audits,

Apply for acceptance on the oil spill control agents register.

These guidelines aim to assist small1 DCV operations to undertake a risk assessment as part of the vessel’s safety management system.