The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) and the University of Tasmania's Australian Maritime College (AMC) have launched a resource kit to help industry and commercial vessel operators comply with revised operational safety requirements.
From July 1 operators of all passenger and hire and drive vessels will be required to have a safety management system (SMS) and comply with the revised standard under the National System for Domestic Commercial Vessels.
The requirement will also apply from July 1, 2016 for all operators of non-passenger and fishing vessels.
AMSA and AMC have worked together to develop a hands-on training workshop to help commercial vessel operators understand how to develop and implement a simple but effective SMS.
The Commercial Vessels Risk and Safety Management workshop resource kit has been designed to assist trainers to train domestic commercial vessel operators how to develop an SMS tailored to their operation.
Industry bodies can nominate people interested in delivering the workshop, who then observe the workshop delivered by an AMSA or AMC staff member and participate in a train-the-trainer development session before they conduct the workshop under the supervision of AMSA or AMC.
The trainers are then able to organise and conduct workshops.
