December 2025 WATERLINE | 33 info@marinecard.org.au | 1300 726 287 Marine Card is a Boating Industry Association Ltd initiative MARINE CARD AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM The BIA’s Marine Card program for visiting contractors, coupled with its Access Management System for venues is the program represents an industry-wide initiative to enhance Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) standards across marine operations. This system is tailored to strengthen WHS compliance, streamline site access, and support safer business practices within the marine sector within your business. The Access Management System functions as a digital sign-in platform via a QR Code for all personnel working onsite. It integrates with Marine Card profiles to verify WHS training credentials and confirm current insurance coverage for your venue. The system ensures only compliant individuals are granted site access. This eliminates the need for manual paperwork, making the sign-in and sign-out process faster, more efficient, and more secure. Let the Marine Card system do the heavy lifting for you. Enhance your operational efficiency and elevate your WHS standards. Contact Shane Wilson today: shane@bia.org.au or mobile 0484 813 881 INDUSTRY NEWS Prolonged exposure to aggressive splash zones, tidal forces, and marine growth, can lead to degradation and undetected internal corrosion of steel piles causing pile failure. HighDensity Polyethylene (HDPE), sleeves provide an improved aesthetic appeal and protection from weather impacts and direct marine growth on the pile itself which can cause corrosion. Over time marine growth and degradation still occur. Unchecked, growth, weather, tidal movement and vessel impact can begin to damage the piles. The sleeves can make inspection challenging, but a simple solution to testing is now available. Inspectahire has developed a deployment method to apply Pulsed Eddy Current (PEC) technology that can measure percentage variations in steel thickness through any nonconductive and non-magnetic materials between sensor and surface, such as air, insulation material, concrete, plastics, coatings, sea water and marine growth, paint, deposits, oil, composite repairs, fireproofing, “scabs” aluminium sheeting and other non- magnetic insulation covers. The system utilises the Maxwell PECT platform with a custom-designed underwater probe, deployed via telescopic pole. Wall thickness measurements can be taken at regular intervals down the length of the pile and requires no surface preparation, significantly improving accessibility, efficiency and detection. Measurement data is collected via a Microsoft Durabook Tablet running bespoke PEC software. Results are presented in a colour-coded format, enabling rapid identification of areas with reduced wall thickness and facilitating targeted maintenance planning. Inspectahire will be exhibiting at Marinas26, so you can learn more about this technology in May, if not before. For more information, visit: inspectahire.com.au NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION OF STEEL PILES
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