INDUSTRY PARTNERS AND LINKS
Information sheets and Zoning Maps
Association of Marine Park Tourism Operators
The Association of Marine Park Tourism Operators Pty Ltd (AMPTO) is the peak industry body for marine tourism within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The association is a not-for-profit limited company, funded by members’ contributions, whose role is to represent its members’ interests in all forums, and further the development of best practice in presenting the wonder of this world heritage area to the world.
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
We are responsible for ensuring the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park – one of the world’s greatest natural treasures – is protected for the future. An ecosystem based approach is used, and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is widely recognised as one of the best managed marine protected areas in the world.
Workplace Health and Safety Legislation
Recreational Diving
Code of Practice, QLD
The code offers advice to persons conducting a business or undertaking that provides
recreational diving, recreational technical diving and snorkelling and others, and to the
persons for whom recreational diving, recreational technical diving and snorkelling are
provided, on how they can make recreational diving, recreational technical diving and
snorkelling a healthier and safer activity
AMSA Safety Management
Australian Maritime Safety Authority
Regulation of commercial operations in the National System will have a focus on operators managing their operational risk. This focus is consistent with the General Safety Duty for all owners, masters, workers and passengers in the commercial marine industry.
Nation Employment Standards
Safety for recreational water activities
Under the SRWA Act a person who conducts a business or undertaking (PCBU) which provides recreational water activities is required to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of any person taking part in those activities.
Marine Tourism and Charter Vessel Award
Marine Tourism and Charter Vessel Award
Wages and Allowances
Marine Safety Queensland
Maritime Safety Queensland is a section of the Department of Transport and Main Roads’ Transport Safety Branch within the Customer Services, Safety and Regulation Division. Our role is to protect Queensland’s waterways and the people who use them – providing safer, cleaner seas.
Publications
Research and Fact Sheets on the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
The new book is an easy-to-read field guide to 101 Animals of the Great Barrier Reef.
It is designed to showcase wildlife that visitors or locals are likely to encounter while snorkelling or diving on the reef.