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Maritime Safety

Postgraduate | TAS-JND503 | 2022

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Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Entry requirements
Part of a degree
Duration
14 weeks

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Maritime Safety

About this subject

  • Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

    1. Describe and evaluate the main elements of a generic safety assessment.
    2. Describe the structure and functions of the international maritime organisation (imo) in the context of maritime safety.
    3. Explain the purpose and function of the major imo legal instruments regulating maritime safety including the international convention for the safety of life at sea (solas), the international convention on load lines, and the international Regulations for avoiding collisions at sea (colregs).
    4. Discuss the role of the imo and its membership in the elaboration of the major imo legal instruments and summarise the process for amending and updating these.
    5. Describe and evaluate the role of australian and other maritime administrations in regulating maritime safety and implementing relevant international instruments.

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Elective

  • OUA-PSU-GCE-2022 - Postgraduate Single Subjects

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Study load

0.125 EFTSL
This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

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Related degrees

Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses

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PostgraduateOUA-PSU-GCE

Postgraduate Single Subjects

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