Serving Our Boating Community Front Cover Picture: NSW Maritime Leads Jessica Watson Into Sydney Harbour to Complete Her Historic Circumnavigation of the World
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Serving our boating community Front cover picture: NSW Maritime leads Jessica Watson into Sydney Harbour to complete her historic circumnavigation of the world. Picture this page: NSW Maritime is working with the community to improve safety through lifejacket reform. Letter to the Minister CONTENTS The Hon Eric Roozendaal MLC Treasurer Minister for State and Regional Development Overview Minister for Ports and Waterways Minister for the Illawarra Corporate governance 4 Special Minister of State Management and structure 8 Level 36 Governor Macquarie Tower 1 Farrer Place Chief Executive’s overview 10 SYDNEY NSW 2000 Key performance indicators 12 29 October 2010 Financial summary 14 Dear Minister 10 year customer trends 16 I am pleased to submit, for presentation to Parliament, the Key result areas Annual Report of the Maritime Authority of NSW (trading as NSW Maritime) for the year ended 30 June 2010. Boating safety 20 The Annual Report has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Annual Reports (Statutory Bodies) Act 1984 Maritime infrastructure 30 and the Ports and Maritime Administration Act 1995. Safe and competitive ports 40 After the report has been tabled in Parliament, it will be made available on the NSW Maritime website www.maritime.nsw. Community involvement 44 gov.au. NSW Maritime will also write to key stakeholders to advise the Annual Report is available online. Maritime and the environment 50 Yours sincerely Corporate Services 54 Financial Statements 59 Appendices 110 Contact Information 131 Steve Dunn Chief Executive NSW MARITIME ANNUAL REPORT 2010 1 1 OVERVIEW About Maritime NSW Maritime is the State Government’s safety regulator for commercial and recreational vessels. NSW Maritime also Our Vision: regulates the safety functions of NSW port corporations; Serving our boating community manages two regional ports; provides policy advice to the State Government on port-related activities; owns and manages the Our Mission: seabed of the major ports, including Sydney Harbour and its Safe waterways and support for the maritime community tributaries; and uses boating licence revenue to support better boating infrastructure across the State. Organisational Priorities: To better serve the boating community, NSW Maritime has five key result areas as the focus for its endeavours and has identified the key objectives it is working to achieve. They are: Key Result Area Objectives Boating Safety Develop and promote a safe commercial vessel and recreational boating culture through a comprehensive safety and compliance program involving education about safe boating practices, and through enforcement of laws. Maritime Improve public access to waterways, including access for people with disabilities, ensure safe public ferry Infrastructure wharves, and encourage and promote maritime precinct developments which meet community expectations and help create maritime related jobs. Safe and Competitive Provide co-ordinated support for port policy and development, and ensure ports operate under effective Ports port safety management arrangements. Community Seek key stakeholder and community involvement in decisions that affect them, promote transparency and Involvement consistency in decision making and reduce red tape. Maritime and the Support lead agencies, such as the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water, and the Environment Department of Industry and Investment, on issues related to the maritime environment, and maintain combat and co-ordination responsibilities under the National Plan to Combat Pollution of the Sea by Oil and other Noxious and Hazardous Substances. The services NSW Maritime provides to the boating community Increase access to knowledge and skills in partnership with on a day-to-day basis support the goals of the State Plan and, in universities particular, its objective to: Protect our native vegetation, biodiversity, land, rivers and Maintain and invest in infrastructure coastal waterways Increase business investment and Increase the number of people participating in sporting activity support jobs Increase the number of people participating in the arts and Speed up planning decisions cultural activity Cut red tape Increase the number of people engaged in volunteering Increase share of journey to work Strengthen Aboriginal communities trips on a safe and reliable public transport system Increase employment and community participation for people Support students to reach their full potential at school with disabilities Improve access to jobs and training Reduce levels of antisocial behaviour. Pictured left: Main picture: A scene at The Spit, Middle Harbour, Sydney. Bottom Left: Customer Service Officer Andrew McDonald explains the new prop strike safety awareness campaign to a boater. Bottom Right: Nikky Waller is part of the Boating Safety Officer network statewide, who provide on-water safety education and compliance. NSW MARITIME ANNUAL REPORT 2010 3 C ORPORATE GOVERNANCE Corporate structure Compliance strategy The creation of the position of Corruption Prevention Manager was approved during NSW Maritime is a statutory body A strategy is being developed to inform the the year. One of the responsibilities of the classified by NSW Treasury as a non-budget maritime community of NSW Maritime’s position holder will be to conduct training dependent general government agency. compliance management approaches on ethical behaviour and to provide advice NSW Maritime is a self-funding entity. under the legislation it administers to staff in relation to ethical dilemmas. The Chief Executive is responsible and and how it implements its compliance responsibilities. accountable to the NSW Minister for Ports Strategic and and Waterways for NSW Maritime’s overall In relation to NSW Maritime’s own business planning performance and for ensuring performance compliance to relevant instruments, such as is consistent with legislative compliance legislation and Premier’s memoranda, the NSW Maritime’s strategic and business and best practice principles. agency will undertake a review in 2010-2011 planning activities are structured to ensure Strategic direction and operational to continue its focus on compliance. the agency’s focus and activities support its management is the responsibility of vision of serving the boating community as an Executive Management Committee Ethical behaviour and well as the goals of the State Plan. consisting of the Chief Executive, Deputy corruption prevention During 2009-2010, the Executive Chief Executive and four General Managers. Management Committee oversaw progress NSW Maritime undertook a number of This Committee meets regularly to review against the 2009-2012 Corporate Plan activities during the year in support of an through quarterly reviews. The plan was operational performance and compliance. ethical workplace culture. Advisory bodies and committees implemented through more detailed also provided advice to the Executive There has been a number of amendments divisional and branch business plans. A Management Committee. over the last 12 months to the NSW Strategic Management Calendar, which Maritime Code of Conduct and Ethics. details NSW Maritime’s responsibilities to In particular, there have been extensive other agencies on a month-by-month basis, Statutory framework amendments in the areas of secondary was also used by the Executive to identify During 2009-2010 the Maritime Authority employment. For example, employees are key organisational priorities. of NSW, trading as NSW Maritime, now required to annually review secondary In response to changing circumstances administered (either wholly or partly) or employment applications. Further changes and emerging issues the Corporate Plan operated under the following legislation: related to contesting State or Federal was also redeveloped during the year and, elections; special provisions regarding Commercial Vessels Act 1979 in accordance with the Ports and Maritime the use of Maritime resources and Administration Act 1995, the 2010-2013 Environmental Planning and Assessment consumption of alcohol. Corporate Plan was delivered to the Act 1979 Training provided on ethical behaviour Minister on 30 June 2010. The revised Marine Pilotage Licensing Act 1971 in NSW Maritime’s induction program plan identifies five key result areas that Marine Pollution Act 1987 for new staff was reviewed and amended will be the focus of NSW Maritime’s Marine Safety Act 1998 during the year and an induction program endeavours and the significant projects specifically for trainees, which includes it will undertake. Marine Safety Legislation (Lakes Hume and ethical behaviour at work, was also Mulwala) Act 2001 developed and delivered in 2009-2010. Maritime Services Act 1935 Policy framework In response to the “NSW Government and development Navigation Act 1901 Lobbyist Code of Conduct”, a memo Passenger Transport Act 1990 providing guidance to senior staff on NSW Maritime operates under relevant legislation, broad government policies Ports and Maritime Administration Act 1995 appropriate engagement with lobbyists was issued. and requirements, its current Corporate Protection of the Environment Operations Plan and other strategic and corporate Act 1997 Two reviews were undertaken during the governance documents. Transport Administration Act 1988 year to ensure practices were consistent with relevant instruments, such as the To enable NSW Maritime to implement Code of Conduct and Ethics, the Enterprise these higher level policies and requirements