1.1 Appointed members only

1.2 Acknowledgement of country and welcome

1.3 Apologies - Chris Salkovic. Margaret Hynes is acting CEO during Chris's absence.

1.4 Conflicts / Disclosure of Interest

Confirmation that previous conflicts of interest have been recorded by DSNSW.

John Stacpoole advised of his change in employment circumstance.

Action 20212206-01: DSNSW to update Register of Interests to reflect the change in John’s circumstance.

Action 20212206-02: DSNSW to append the “Register of Interest” to future minutes and publish.

1.5 Previous minutes and actions

Members requested a few amendments to the minutes be made prior to approval being provided.

Action 20212206-03: DSNSW to amend wording in section 2.1 - Very low and low consequence dams over 15m and section 4.2 – CEO update of previous minutes with members recommended changes. Circulate to members for approval.

Action 20212206-04: DSNSW to provide an update on Information Classification project to be provided at next meeting.

1.6 Guest Speaker – Mining NSW: challenges being faced by Mining - James Barben and Steve Downes

James and Steve joined the meeting and discussed issues raised by their members and proposed that DSNSW hold information sessions and/or develop fact sheets for mining stakeholders.

Action 20212206-05: DSNSW to consider comments made by Mining NSW and explore opportunities to provide additional guidance and engagement to mining stakeholders.

Strategy/Stakeholder

Matters for Discussion

2.1 Strategic risk deep dive – government confidence in DSNSW

Peter Boyd presented the Strategic risk deep dive - government confidence in DSNSW. Peter to update strategic risk with recommended changes by members.

Action 20212206-06: DSNSW to change wording in section 1.3 of strategic risk – government confidence from ‘Risk-based …… with high dams to ‘Risk-based …... with all dams.

Action 20212206-07: DSNSW to update section 2 to include: Inform the Minister of emerging issues received from the stakeholders.

Matters for Noting

2.2 DSNSW Annual Report

Kristina Resanceff presented an overview of this years’ Annual Report.

Members provided feedback on how and where they’d like to see key items presented.

Action 20212206-08: DSNSW to present draft annual report to members out of session in August for comment and potential discussion at September meeting (if required).

Action 20212206-09: DSNSW to update members on key decisions made during 20/21 during strategic workshop

Governance

Nil

Operations

Matters for Discussion

4.1 De-declaration of dams

Jason Porter presented the paper on the dams to be de-declared. Members approved the recommendation to de-declare 7 dams.

Matters for Noting

4.2 CEO Report

Margaret Hynes presented the CEO report.

Action 20212206-10: DSNSW to send members a copy of the Levy media release and letter sent to declared dam owners.

Action 20212206-11: DSNSW to further analyse information gathered from training survey and provide members with an update on where we can assist with uplifting dam owners capability through training.

4.3 Key Performance Indicators and projects

Nil actions

4.4 Detail Operations Update

Asim Chohan presented the operational update.

Action 20212206-12: DSNSW provide an Incident summary of Reported incidents in KPI report.

Action 20212206-13: DSNSW to review processes to verify effectiveness of independent peer reviewers.

4.4a Audit program

Jesse Jones and Sherif Hussein provided an update on the audit program and presented key findings from the 46 audits conducted.

4.4b Dams above safety threshold

Jason Porter provided an updated on the dams above safety threshold.

Action 20212206-14: DSNSW to develop internal guidance for declared dam owners to bring dams that are above the safety threshold to below it. Process to include: tolerance level, escalation trigger points and actions and timings.

Action 20212206-15: DSNSW to schedule a site visit to Gosling creek during July’s face to face meeting.

4.4c Capability maturity update

Akber provided an update on the capability maturity assessment work currently being done.

Note: Key findings of Capability maturity data to be discussed in strategic planning workshop in July.

General Business

5.1 Guest Speaker: WaterNSW - Warragamba risk assessment - Sami Banzi & Ronan Magaharan

Water NSW presented information from their draft preliminary risk assessment results for Warragamba Dam.

5.2 ANCOLD attendance

ANCOLD conference being held in Perth this year (November).

Action 20212206-16: DSNSW to make arrangements for members (John Stacpoole and Alex Fisher) to attend ANCOLD conference in Perth 2021.

Meeting Finalisation

6.1 Review actions taken 

6.2 Meeting evaluation – Rob O'Neill.

6.3 Next meeting – face to face in July 2021

6.4 Meeting concluded – 2pm