Marine Order 55 (Vessels carrying industrial personnel) 2024, requires that industrial personnel be at least 16 years of age, and have documentary evidence of the person’s physical and medical fitness of a kind that is acceptable to AMSA.
Below is a list a list of documentation evidencing physical and medical fitness that is acceptable to AMSA. Acceptable evidence includes physical and medical assessments provided by registered medical practitioners (such as those assessments that relate to the qualifications required by employers for employees who work in the offshore sector).
- AMSA certificate of medical fitness for international seafarers and coastal pilots
- AMSA certificate of medical fitness for domestic seafarers
- Oil and gas UK (OKUG) medical
- Railway safety medical
- Coal mine workers medical
- Safer together medical assessment
- Commercial driver medical
- Aviation medical
General information on industrial medicals in Australia can be found at Sonic Health Plus.