SMS Marine
Marine Order 504
The safety management system for Australian commercial vessels, without the paperwork mountain.
Running a domestic commercial vessel means proving, at any moment, that your safety management system is current, complete and being followed. SMS Marine puts your whole Marine Order 504 system in one secure place — your vessels, crew, certificates, risk assessments, drills, maintenance, logs and audits — so you spend less time chasing paper and more time on the water. When a surveyor asks, everything is a click away.
No payment, no commitment — your data is kept if you come on board.
Marine SMS Software Australia for Commercial Vessel Operators
SMS Marine is marine SMS software Australia developed for Australian domestic commercial vessel operators who need practical, accessible safety records in the course of everyday operations.
It is commercial vessel compliance software designed to help operators manage Marine Order 504 obligations, from vessel and crew records through to risk assessments, maintenance, drills, incidents and audits.
As a digital safety management system for commercial vessels, SMS Marine supports both single-vessel businesses and fleets with one secure system that can grow with the operation.
Built Around the Way You Actually Operate
Your organisation sits at the top. Under it you add each of your vessels, then your people and their roles, and every safety record lives against the right vessel. One operator or a whole fleet — the structure is the same, and it grows with you.
Everyone sees exactly what they should. Owners and your Designated Person Ashore manage the system, Masters and crew keep records up to date on their vessels, and auditors or AMSA inspectors can be given read only access when they need to review — without ever being able to change your records.
Role-Based Access
- Owners & DPA: Manage the system
- Masters & Crew: Keep records up to date
- Auditors & AMSA: Read-only access
Everything Marine Order 504 Asks For, In One Place
Record each vessel's details, class, area and kind of operation, and its Certificate of Operation, all in one profile.
Keep every crew member's qualifications, medicals and tickets on file, with expiry dates tracked automatically. The dashboard warns you before a certificate lapses.
Build and maintain your hazard register with likelihoods, consequences, controls and who's responsible.
Log emergency drills and training, who took part, and when the next one is due.
Capture pre-work safety discussions, hazards raised and actions agreed, with attendees recorded.
Record inspections and servicing, planned maintenance, defects and their rectification.
Keep voyage records — passages, conditions, persons on board and remarks — against each vessel.
Report incidents and hazardous occurrences, run investigations, and link the corrective actions that close them out.
Track every action from raised to verified, so nothing slips through.
Run internal audits against your requirements, record findings, and keep a history of every review and revision.
Upload each vessel's muster lists, emergency plans and day-to-day procedures so the current version is always to hand.
Store your policies, manuals and forms — your whole controlled SMS documentation — securely against the right vessel.
Designed to Make an Audit Easy
Expiring certificates, overdue actions and outstanding items surface the moment you log in, so you can act before they become a problem.
Records are edited, archived and restored — never quietly deleted. Completed and signed compliance records are protected, and every change is logged with who and when.
Every record prints as a clean, branded compliance document — not a screenshot — ready to hand over or save as a PDF.
Add your own logo and it appears across your pages and on every printed document, so your SMS looks like yours.
Passenger Manifest Software — Records Made Easy
Building a passenger manifest used to mean a clipboard, a spreadsheet, and re-typing the same names twice. Not anymore. SMS Marine gives you an AMSA-ready passenger manifest (MO 504, Schedule 1, clause 15) built right into the app — and you can fill it two ways.
Type passengers straight in on screen, row by row, with a tap to add or remove a line. Or — the real time-saver — import a CSV straight from your booking system or spreadsheet, and the whole list drops in at once. Ten passengers or a hundred, it's one click.
Every manifest captures exactly what AMSA asks for: full name, local and home address, phone, email, and any medical or safety needs relevant in an emergency. The app fills in your vessel name and unique identification number automatically, counts the persons on board for you, and produces a clean, branded manifest you can print or save as a PDF — ready to hand to a marine safety inspector or emergency service in seconds.
Risk Assessment Report
Put Risk Assessment Input Screen
Document Library
Policies & Procedures
Secure, Cloud Based, Always With You
Your data lives in a secure cloud database, backed up and available from any device — desktop on the wharf office, phone on the vessel. Every organisation's information is completely walled off from every other, files are private and served only through secure, temporary links, and access is controlled by role.
Sign in from anywhere; there's nothing to install and nothing to lose if a laptop goes overboard.
Cloud Backup
Secure Access
Anywhere Access
Simple Plans That Grow With Your Operation
Each plan is an annual subscription. You're set up with an access code, your allowance is enforced automatically, and moving up a tier is as easy as applying a new code — no reinstall, no lost data.
Spend Less Time on Paperwork, and Be Ready When It Counts
Get your entire Marine Order 504 safety management system organised, current and audit ready — for one vessel or your whole fleet.
SMS Marine helps you build and maintain the records required under AMSA Marine Order 504. It is a management tool to help you demonstrate your safety management system; it does not replace your obligations as owner or master, or approval of your SMS by AMSA.