AMSA releases new four-year compliance strategy

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The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has released its compliance strategy for the next four years.

The AMSA Compliance Strategy 2023-27 builds on the modern regulatory foundations laid out in its predecessor – a data-driven, risk-based and proportionate approach to compliance that minimises impact on industry while maximising safety and environmental outcomes.

The strategy is implemented through AMSA’s annual National Compliance Plans, which detail specific inspection and education focus areas for a given 12-month period.

Michael Drake, AMSA Executive Director of Operations, says the authority uses incident and inspection data to identify and target emerging risks to safety across the domestic and merchant maritime industries.

“Once we know where our efforts need to be strategically directed, our proportionate approach means we adjust our compliance response according to an individual’s willingness to comply with their legal obligations,” Mr Drake explains. “A more collaborative approach is used with operators who voluntarily comply, while on the other end of the compliance spectrum, a more punitive approach is used with operators who disregard and resist their legal obligations.”


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