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The NOPSA Board

The NOPSA Board provides advice to the Commonwealth Minister and State and North Territory Ministers on policy and strategic matters relating to occupational health and safety of offshore petroleum operations. It also gives advice and recommendations to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NOPSA about operational policies to be followed by the Authority. Lines of Communication [15KB pdf] diagrams these relationships.

Section 364 of the Offshore Petroleum Act 2006 sets out the functions of the NOPSA Board.

Annual Report

The NOPSA Board Annual Report 2006-07 was tabled in Parliament on 15th October 2007.
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The NOPSA Board Annual Report 2005-06 was tabled in Parliament on 17th October 2006.
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NOPSA Board Annual Report 2004-05.
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Board Members

The Minister for Resources, Energy and Tourism, the Hon Martin Ferguson AM MP, has appointed the following members to the Advisory Board of the National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority (NOPSA). A press release regarding the appointments is available from the Minister's website. Secretariat services to the Board are now provided by the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism (DRET).

The new Board members have been appointed for terms of up to three years, as recommended by the Ministerial Council on Mineral and Petroleum Resources.

The new appointments are: Bill Bloking (Chair), Susan Johnston and David Healey.
Robert King, Barry Adams, Dale Bond and Margaret Donnan have been reappointed to the Board.

	Bill Bloking FAICD (Chair) Mr Bloking has more than thirty-four years of experience in the oil and gas sector, working throughout Asia, Australia, Europe, the USA, and South America. Until January, 2007, Mr Bloking was the President of Australia/Asia Gas for the BHP Billiton Group and had overall strategic, commercial, and bottom line accountability for BHP Billiton’s international LNG business and its domestic gas business in Australia. Prior to joining BHP Billiton, Mr. Bloking spent 24 years with ExxonMobil, where he held a variety of senior executive positions – including Chief Operating Office of Esso Eastern Products Trading Company, Supply Operations Manager for the Far East and Western Hemisphere, and General Manager of Natural Gas in Indonesia. He is currently Chairman of Norwest Energy NL, Cool Energy Ltd, and Cullen Wines (Australia), Vice Chairman of KAL Energy, and is a director of Nido Petroleum, The John Holland Group, Delta Pacific Mining Plc, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and the Lions Eye Institute. He is also a Governor of the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia, a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Western Australia’s Confucius Centre, an Adjunct Professor at Murdoch University, and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
	Barry Adams Barry commenced his career in 1974 following the completion of a B.Eng (Elec). He has 5 years hard-rock mining experience and 25 years experience in the offshore and onshore oil and gas industry in a variety of maintenance, operations, project, supervisory and executive management roles around Australia and in the United Kingdom. He worked for Esso for 12 years and joined Woodside in 1992. He spent three-years on secondment to Shell Expro in the UK as Production Support Manager and returned to Woodside in 1995 as the Offshore Operations Manager for Woodside. In 2000 he was appointed General Manager of the South-Eastern Australia Business Unit based in Melbourne. In April 2003 he joined Business Essence as a Director and Business/Management Consultant. During the past 5 years he has lead and participated in several Health & Safety and executive level business reviews for the resource industry and has also undertaken a number of executive level roles, on a project basis, for companies in start-up or turnaround phase. He also provides an ongoing advisory service to a variety of small to large companies on business strategy, planning and improvement. Barry is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Society of Petroleum Engineers and Institution of Engineers(Australia), a Director of Red Sky Energy Ltd., Business Essence Pty Ltd. and Equitus Pty Ltd, as well as a member of the Advisory Board for the National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority
	Dale Bond Mr Bond has worked for 28 years in the oil industry, including four years in onshore process operations and twenty-four years in offshore production operations. He has been an elected Offshore Health and Safety Representative for the last 20 years and was also a member of the National Oil and Gas Safety Advisory Committee. He worked as a representative of the ACTU in the legislative review with the NOPSA implementation team. Mr Bond has had extensive experience in working with the development, implementation and auditing of facility Safety Cases including Formal Safety Assessment, Hazard identification, Risk assessment, preventative and mitigation controls.
	Margaret Donnan Ms Donnan is the Chief Executive Officer for the Plastics and Chemical Industries Association, (PACIA). While working for the Victorian Government, she led the establishment of the Victorian Major Hazards Division in response to the 1998 Esso Longford incident. She developed and implemented new onshore safety case regulations in Victoria in 2000 to give effect to government policy, and developed and implemented strategic prevention programs, to improve safety at major hazard facilities across the state. In her PACIA role, Margaret is working with a number of state jurisdictions, ASCC, industry, unions and other stakeholders to support effective and consistent development and implementation of onshore safety case regimes across Australia. As PACIA CEO, she is responsible to the Board of PACIA for the national operations of the Association. Her role includes extensive communication with Ministers and senior officers within the Australian Government and State Governments, the provision of services and advice to senior executives of member companies, and representation of the plastics and chemicals sector in industry meetings and public forums.
	David Healy Mr Healy worked in the offshore petroleum sector in Victoria from 1982–2006. He was an elected OH&S representative for 13 years and was proactive in all aspects of OH&S: Facility safety case development/review which included Hazard ID/risk assessment processes and analysis of mitigative controls through Safety Management System processes; 1996–2000 Part of a small HSR committee which frequently met with trade unions and state government bodies to discuss establishing a national safety authority for the industry; 2000–05 participated in the development of offshore regulation through both submissions and face to face meetings with Peter Wilkinson and the NOPSA development team; Attended annual HSR forums 2000–07 as a participant and guest speaker and instigated the 'HSR of the year award'. Mr Healy is an official with the Australian Workers’ Union in the offshore petroleum sector and continues to engage with industry stakeholders regarding OHS issues.
	Susan Johnston Headed landmark reviews of health and safety in the mining industry, including the Review of Mine Safety in New South Wales. Oversaw tripartite response to findings of disaster at Moura No 2 Coal Mine. Devised and drove a safety improvement effort in Anglo Coal that has contributed to substantially improved safety performance. More than 20 years providing advice to industry bodies, governments and individual companies on a broad range of resource sector issues including mine safety. Former Chief Executive Officer of the Queensland Resources Council. Conducted inquiries and compliance reviews for both government and private sector companies. More than seven years as a company Director and member of various advisory boards. Former Senior Executive in the Queensland Premier’s and Mines and Energy Departments and Senior Advisor to two state and two federal Ministers for Resources. Barrister.
	Robert King Mr King managed the safety case and environment regulations for petroleum operations in waters off Victoria. During that period he initiated the bringing of mining safety under the state OHS Act regime and led the development of risk based safety regulations for mining in Victoria based on the safety case approach. During 2003 and 2004 he was employed by the Commonwealth to assist in the set up of NOPSA. He was closely involved in the development of the necessary amendments to the Act, the preparation of the new regulations and the development of the safety case guidelines. He worked closely with the various State and Territory governments, on the transitional arrangements from the old state based regime to the new regime, as well as industry, union and other stakeholder groups during this NOPSA setup period.

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