Catalogue description Records of the Marine Safety Agency

Details of Division within MT
Reference: Division within MT
Title: Records of the Marine Safety Agency
Description:

Records of the Marine Safety Agency, established in 1998 to oversee marine safety, document the administration of the agency and include:

annual reports in MT 163

and business plans of the agency in MT 173
Date: 1994-1998
Related material:

See also Division within MT
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Marine Safety Agency, 1994-1998
Physical description: 2 series
Immediate source of acquisition:

Department of Transport , in 1997 , from 1998

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions , in 1997 , from 1998
Administrative / biographical background:

On 1 April 1994 the Surveyor General's Organisation of the Department of Transport's Marine Directorate was renamed the Marine Safety Agency (MSA) and became an executive agency of the department.

The agency is responsible for implementing the government's strategy to ensure high standards of marine safety and to minimise the risk of pollution from ships.

A Chief Executive was appointed in 1994. He was supported by a management board comprising four divisional directors responsible for: Ship Construction and Navigation; Marine Engineering, Equipment and Pollution Prevention; Operations and Seafarers' Standards; and Finance and Corporate Services

On 1 April 1995, the first two divisions were merged to form the Marine and Safety Standards Division and a non-executive director joined the agency's board in September 1995

Some Common services are shared with the Coast Guard Agency.

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