Inquiries & Recommendations

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Introduce the following directions into the harbour bylaws covering their ports, to emphasise the intent and principles of STCW and SOLAS: • all vessels, whether under pilotage or pilot exempt, shall have an agreed passage plan for transits within harbour limits • the number of crew members on the bridge shall be sufficient to safely carry out the agreed passage plan

undertake a cost benefit analysis with a view to drafting an amendment to Maritime Rule Part 23, Operational Procedures and Training, for the Minister’s consideration to change the content and method of promulgation of the contents of “the instructions to be followed in the event of an emergency” for restricted limit passenger vessels. The amendment to include, at least, verbal advice of life jacket donning instructions so as to enable passengers to safely don the lifejackets carried on board

Require the fitting of an inclined footplate in front of each passenger seat, having first assessed what the optimum angle for such a footplate is.

Conduct a review of engine room watch keeping practices on board all company ships, and then issue instructions on the correct procedures to follow, particularly in relation to alarm monitoring

During the Picton berthing occurrence the master was captive to the propeller pitch controls and could not totally oversee the second officer who was under training, nor could he totally monitor the progress of the ship as it backed into the berth.

In controlled airspace where separation is not provided between aircraft operating under VFR, a VFR aircraft that is instructed to follow another aircraft is not explicitly required to advise ATC promptly if visual contact is lost with the relevant traffic.

review Toll Rail’s compliance monitoring of locomotive engineers to confirm that the increased monitoring as defined in the safety action of 21 February 2006 has been implemented and is effective.

On 7 December 2022 the Commission recommended that KiwiRail review its permit-to-enter process to ensure that any associated costs and requirements are not prohibitive to the completion of safety-critical work, and that the charging of fees for permits to enter is in accordance with the Railways Act 2005.

The current performance standard for train event recorders (or data loggers) as described in the National Rail System Standard NRSS/6 needs to be updated to include safety-critical equipment on electric traction trains and technical standards for how such information is recorded.

introduce into existing train control rostering procedures a defined maximum number of consecutive at-risk (night) shifts that may be worked together with provision for a mandatory rest period before commencing the next shift rotation.

Revise the procedures for tagging downrated locomotives to include a formal process to have them entered into the computerised tonnage control system, and include such information in the train consist documentation supplied to LEs, together with the status of any non-powered locomotives in the consist.

On 26 September 2019 the Commission recommended to the Director of Maritime New Zealand that they work with the Ministry of Transport to amend Rule 40D to put appropriate measures in place to ensure that aging fishing vessels are not permitted to remain in the system indefinitely without being required to meet contemporary safety standards.