Transport Operations (Marine Safety) Act 1994

Part 4, division 1 imposes general safety obligations for Queensland regulated ships on the following people in the maritime industry—

a competent person who issues a survey report for a ship;

a ship’s owner (including an operator);

a ship’s master and crew.

Part 4, division 2 imposes general safety obligations for all ships on the following people in the maritime industry—

a ship’s pilot;

the managing pilotage entity for a ship in a compulsory pilotage area.

These general safety obligations are generally intended to be performance based rather than prescriptive and to allow people to find more cost efficient ways of achieving safety.