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and enforcement priorities will reflect assessed risks and will be regularly reviewed.

Actions
    7.3.3           Assess permit applications, provide briefings to applicants and issue permits where appropriate having regard to Section 7.1, Assessment of proposals.

    7.3.4           Further develop, implement, monitor and review compliance and law enforcement strategies.

    7.3.5           Carry out surveillance, compliance and, as needed, law enforcement activities, including educational activities and patrols of the park.

    7.3.6           Liaise and, where appropriate, seek to work collaboratively with relevant stakeholders, particularly the Australian Federal Police, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection and the Western Australian Department of Fisheries, in relation to compliance and enforcement issues.

    7.4              Incident management

Background
Incidents in the park and on the southern atoll may potentially affect park values, property or people's safety. Incidents may include vehicle or boating accidents; missing or injured people; and damage to Parks Australia's infrastructure or the park's natural environment from natural causes like cyclones or accidents such as chemical spills. Incidents that result in the destruction of, or damage to, park property or any part of the park environment from deliberate human activity, as prescribed by the EPBC Regulations, are managed in accordance with Section 7.3.
The Director has the function under the EPBC Act of administering, managing and controlling the park. This gives the Director responsibility in relation to emergencies in the park. Also, the Director has a duty of care for park visitors and staff, and a duty under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 to take reasonably practicable steps to protect employees and park visitors from risks to their health and safety.
Staff and visitors to the park are normally required to swim between a landing vessel and the island shore when landing on, and being picked up from, North Keeling Island. Similarly, any equipment for the visit to the island must be transferred by hand between a landing vessel and the shore. Difficult weather conditions can increase the severity of wave heights and ocean conditions. Management of this risk is through briefing and education for all visitors to the park and ensuring that all visitors are proficient and able-bodied swimmers, and through assessment of conditions prior to travelling to the island and when considering the transfer operation. Travel to the island and transfer of personnel from boat to shore and vice versa are frequently cancelled due to weather conditions.
In the late 1980s, military personnel disposed of live World War II ammunition found on the southern end of the western beach. Waves had eroded sections of the beach and exposed the ammunition, which had been previously undetected. Reports suggest that Japanese armed forces stored them together with submarine fuel. The fuel and some ammunition was found and