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NSSA REPORT

THE NATIONAL SECURITY SCREEN ASSOCIATION 2022

Our industry has continued to battle a wide range of challenges, impacting businesses at a time when we might have hoped for a reprieve from the past two years of lock downs, restrictions and mandates. The everchanging COVID environment, rising costs and retaining and finding staff are common themes that all members around the country are facing. Let's hope that 2022 is kinder to us all and that we return to some sense of normalcy.

NSSA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

As the new year has kicked off and is building in momentum, the NSSA Board of Directors are settling into their roles. The NSSA Board of Directors come from a broad cross section of business and companies within our industry, with a wide representation from manufacturing and installing members, to system suppliers, and even an independent entity.

The NSSA Board of Directors

• Derek Tidey – Scorpio Screens and Blinds • Beau Blakemore – Queensland Security Screens • Kathy Giliberto – SP Shutters, Doors and Blinds • Jay Bond - Decoview • Kurt Kavanagh - Capral Aluminium • Brad Wickett – PRW Security Doors + Screens • David Burley – Glass 24/7 • John Leslie - Independent consultant/AGWA and NSSA Compliance Auditor • Graham Kerby – Darley Aluminium

NSSA DEVELOPMENT FUND CONTRIBUTOR (DFC) PARTNER MEETINGS

Standards Australia Review - NSSA Update. Our first in a series of DFC Partner updates was held in February. It was great to see so many people attend this meeting, which is testament of the importance that the industry places upon the development of our suite of Australian Standards, and the progress of the Standards CS-023 Committee and NSSA Technical Committee.

This meeting presented an opportunity for our industry partners and NSSA Board of Directors to come together and learn more about the Standards Australia Review and the Standards CS-023 Committee. It was also an opportunity to consider proposing a suitable candidate to fill the second NSSA Seat on the Committee, available to a representative of the NSSA since the departure of Shane Smith, ex CS-023 Committee Chair. Craig Brennan, Azuma/AGWA Seat and Tarek Mostafa, ASSA ABLOY/ NSSA Seat, gave the meeting participants an insight into the scope of work completed by the Standards CS-023 Committee, the Standards review process and the public consultation process.

Three nominees came forward at this meeting, each equally skilled and qualified to take up this seat and do it justice. We thank the following NSSA Members who have offered to give their time and service to represent the NSSA on the Standards CS-023 Committee and the NSSA Standards Sub Committee.

• Beau Blakemore, Queensland Security Screens - NSSA Seat • Jamie Koutsoukos, ClearShield - Information Only Seat • David Burley, Glass 24/7 - Technical Sub Committee A big thank you to Craig and Tarek for the update and for the volumes of work completed to date on the Standards review by Shane Smith and the NSSA Standards Australia Sub Committee.

The NSSA Technical Committee will come together over a series of dates planned for 2022, to support the NSSA Seats on the Standards CS-023 Committee and finalise a few exciting projects.

MEMBER MARKETING RESOURCES

The Marketing Committee has been working to bring our members a NSSA Member Marketing Tool Kit. The Marketing Tool Kit is designed to help our members get the most out of their NSSA Membership. The Tool Kit includes practical step by step marketing initiatives and guides on the use of NSSA resources, tips on how to maximise promotion of NSSA Membership and compliance, using social media for small business, website content, NSSA logos, consumer flyers, and much more, to help every member give their business and brand awareness a super charged boost. Stay up to date via the NSSA Members Community Group on Facebook and the NSSA Website.

GROWING THE TEAM IN 2022

In 2022 the NSSA will grow in terms of staff to support the growth and success of the association.

Many of you will know Claudene Damianakis, NSSA Secretariat and Executive Officer, as she has been the driving force behind the scenes of the Association, working tirelessly in the background managing the needs of the NSSA Board Members, NSSA Committees and Members alike for the past four and a half years. The time is now right to expand our resources and the team behind the NSSA, and increase our value for members investment, with the introduction of a Members Administration Assistant in the coming months. We see this as the start of an integrated team at the NSSA, that will be 100% focussed on providing value and outcomes for our members support and growth of the NSSA.

MEMBER INFORMATION SESSIONS 2022

Many of us are experiencing a sense of detachment and aloneness, so as the COVID-19 restrictions lift, the NSSA is keen to get back in front of our members via NSSA Member Information Sessions to discuss Standards, compliance, development of future training, key issues facing the industry and growth of the association and security screen industry. Keep an eye out for dates later in 2022. On behalf of the Board of Directors and NSSA Secretariat/EO, I would like to thank our DFC Partners and all of our members for your ongoing support. We have a great industry with a very bright future, and I look forward to speaking with each of you about how we can work closer together to ensure we realise the many opportunities ahead of us.

Derek Tidey NSSA Chair