54Incident reporting

54 Incident reporting

54.1 It is a condition of a pilotage provider licence that, after any incident involving a pilot launch or ship piloted by a person contracted or employed by the pilotage provider, the pilotage provider:

(a) after an incident involving a pilot launch — tells AMSA about the incident before the end of the next business day after the day of the incident; and

(b) after an incident involving a ship piloted by the person — tells AMSA about the incident within 4 hours after the incident; and

(c) if requested by AMSA, give AMSA written details of the incident within 72 hours after the request is made.

Note If a form is approved for this purpose, the approved form must be used — see pr 119.

54.2 In this provision:

incident, involving a pilot launch or ship piloted by a person contracted or employed by a provider, includes the following:

(a) any form of collision between the launch or ship and something else;

(b) a grounding of the launch or ship;

(c) structural failure of the launch or ship;

(d) an injury to or illness of a person that may affect the safe operation of the launch or ship;

(e) a close quarters event involving the launch or ship;

(f) a near miss involving the launch or ship;

(g) pollution from the launch or ship;

(h) fire on board the launch or ship;

(i) machinery or equipment failure on board the launch or ship that may affect the safe operation of the launch or ship.