Tag: AMSA

AMSA published a safety alert, to provide guidance to operators of domestic commercial vessels (DCVs) on risks associated with the carriage of battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs) on roll-on, roll-off (RORO) ferries, and how best to deal with these risks.

AMSA provides lessons learned from an incident where, a passenger ferry was returning from its scheduled service when an unanticipated wave raised its stern and caused its bow to dive under the water.

Shipboard tasks such as working at heights and/or over the side, mooring and rigging (e.g. an accommodation ladder or pilot ladder) are considered high-risk operations. Unfortunately, these tasks are often conducted in an unsafe manner, AMSA highlights in its new Safety Awareness Bulletin with two case studies. 

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has completed a major $15.5 million two-year project, to repair and rejuvenate essential aids to navigation (AtoNs) off the coast of Port Hedland, Western Australia.

In the 2022 Australian Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC) annual report, AMSA presents an analysis of MLC complaints, compliance and follow-up actions undertaken by AMSA in Australia for 2022.

AMSA provides lessons learned from an incident where crewmember overboard compounded by lack of life jacket wear risk assessment.

Capt. Jeanine Drummond has been the Chair of the AMSA Board since this July, and in an exclusive interview to SAFETY4SEA, she outlines her top priorities for the agenda.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has coordinated the rescue of three people on board a catamaran 835km Southeast of Cairns in the Coral Sea.

AMSA provides lessons learned from an incident where a charter vessel transiting between research sites at night collided with a stationary vessel. 

On 24th August, at 9:40 a.m., the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) received a call from the Lizard Island Resort in North Queensland, about a 16-metre sailing vessel aground on Waining Reef, 26 km north west of Lizard Island.