Management and Accountability

Corporate Governance

The Industrial Registrar, Mr. Peter Richards, is the AIR’s Agency Head and is responsible for discharging all corporate governance responsibilities. He is assisted by the General Manager, Statutory Services, Mr. Terry Nassios. The Industrial Registrar is assisted by a Contracts Management Committee and an Audit Committee. There are no other senior management committees as such in the Registry.

Corporate and Operational Plans and Associated Performance Reporting and Review

The Registry has articulated its goals and identified its customers in a Corporate Plan document. This document also identifies the Reputation and Organisational Qualities it seeks.

Beyond this level there are Team Plans which are attuned to the Corporate Plan and which contain the detail on the specific operations and activities, and outcomes and outputs of the Registry.

In addition to the above, the Registry has a Service Charter, a Diversity Program as required by s.18 of the Public Service Act 1999, an Occupational Health and Safety Agreement, a set of Chief Executive Instructions issued pursuant to the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 and a range of strategies (although not in single specific documents) relating to operational considerations such as information management and technology, training and development, etc.

Performance at a corporate level is reported through prescribed Annual Report, State of the Service and Workplace Diversity Report requirements, and other external reports such as the portfolio budget statements.

Internally, each Team Plan is evaluated at the end of the year (30 June) and the evaluation forwarded to the Industrial Registrar for review. These team reports are placed on the AIR Intranet and open to comments by all Registry employees