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We take a 'systems approach' to education activities because marine incidents can involve multiple failures of system components—human, organisational, or technical.
Our education activities include:
We run targeted safety management workshops based on operation, sector, size and complexity. These aim to help domestic commercial vessel operators develop a greater understanding of safety management systems. The workshops will address other safety matters including topics such as:
Monitoring activities in 2018–19 will involve face-to-face interaction with approximately 10 per cent of the domestic commercial vessel fleet. Our approach to monitoring has three parts—inspections, business audits and compliance checks.
Our inspections for 2018–19 focus on:
Our business audits look at safety assessment and response processes that are reflected in the safety management system. If the business has a number of vessels we will audit a sample only.
Audits for 2018–19 will focus on:
For vessels of 7.5 metres or less, compliance checks and monitoring activities are combined with education programs. We have compliance partner arrangements with marine safety, parks, and fisheries organisations, and police agencies across Australia. AMSA staff deliver monitoring activities in connection with staff from our compliance partner organisations.