Significant resources have been invested in workplace health and safety in the commercial fishing industry. However, the majority have targeted individual fisheries and there has been limited extension for wider industry adoption. It is desirable to produce a safety management system (SMS) that meets both sets of legislation and develop a tool that can be used to assess the uptake of the initiatives through the peak bodies as well as developing a robust set of statistics to benchmark the performance. This investment will build capability in each jurisdiction industry council for the development of a safety management system toolkit based on gear type/fishery type for implementation across industry. The project will also develop a national “champions” network for workplace/ marine safety to assist jurisdictional bodies communicate and champion the safety message.