AMSA monitors compliance through a range of activities designed to help us better understand compliance behaviour, encourage, and support voluntary compliance, deter non-compliance, and inform initiatives to support our compliance partners.
Activities include:
- Inspections: Marine inspectors perform both scheduled and unscheduled inspections of vessels to ensure compliance with maritime laws for the safety of persons, vessels and protection of the environment. Vessel inspections also seek to detect systemic performance issues within the accredited surveyor scheme and other associated entities.
- Communication and engagement: Based on safety data analysis that identify safety and compliance trends across industries, we utilise data from search and rescue incidents, marine incident reports, incident investigations, inspections, and audits. AMSA’s compliance activities may take the following form:
- Education: This may include a combination of communication activities, production of guidance material and workshops.
- Safety compliance: A combination of education, focused inspections and audits. We will generally commence with an education campaign followed by focused inspections to identify and measure the level of compliance.
- Compliance checks: Compliance checks and monitoring activities are combined with education programs. We have compliance partner arrangements with State and Territory agencies, across Australia. Monitoring activities can be undertaken with our compliance partners.