Our compliance strategy will help us focus our efforts on promoting voluntary regulatory compliance. It will ensure that we consider six important elements as we work with industry to promote maritime safety and to protect the marine environment.

In this edition we explain the criteria for issuing temporary permits under exemption 7, we give details of the reports that are needed when a regulated Australian vessel becomes a domestic commercial vessel, we give you a handy tour of the AMSA organisation, and more.

This exemption allows people to master a traditional inhabitant fishing boat without the required certificate of competency.

This exemption is for people who want to work on a domestic commercial vessel being used for a wildlife or other sightseeing operation in inland waters.

In this edition we give you some details about level flotation, explain how to document non-conformances, AMSA’s approach to modular barges and more.

In this issue we bring you information about a new electrical standard, welding requirements for some vessels, how many watertight doors the NSCV allows and more.