ACRNA.org is the official website of the Australian Control Room Network Association

The Australian Control Room Network Association is a non-commercial industry association formed to support Operators of Australian control rooms.  The Association members are encouraged to share ideas and experiences with the overall aim of achieving continuous improvement with the services delivered.  

The Association, through it members will facilitate discussion and interaction by means of conferences, webinars and meetings.  All members of the Association are encouraged to participate and support the activities of the Association.  

This site currently supports a number of member services, particularly ACRNA Connect and the Events Calendar. In 2020 we hope to develop a more sophisticated and professional portal to manage subscriptions and conference and seminar registrations.

You can look forward to this site continuing to develop as a valuable resource and share centre, because you are the ones who will build it.

Pull your contacts, gather your resources, get involved…

ACRNA will be as strong as its membership.

History

In 2013, a number of control room stakeholders attended a Control Room Design and Operation conference in Sydney. It was unique and important and filled a room with 80 people. It was a forum which involved operators, managers, designers, human factors and ergonomics. It held the interest of representatives from oil, gas, electrical generation and distribution, market operators, transport, tunnels, mining and infrastructure; educators and researchers; consultants and trade vendors. It was a forum which had not been convened before in Australia.

It was held again in Sydney in 2014 and Melbourne in 2015.

It was evident that delegates wanted participation and representation – a members' organisation which would continue to provide and manage a members’ forum to support the control room industry.

Following the 2015 conference a few individuals created the Australian Control Rooms Network – a LinkedIn group – which provided an ongoing forum. They designed and produced OZCORONET 2016 – the group’s self-organised three day conference in Brisbane. Not only was the content professional and unusual, but the vitality and networking proved the appetite for this forum. The presentations included live theatre safety training with actors; eight case studies, international presenters and delegates; and eight facility site visits with an insights and lessons learnt panel session back at the conference with the site visit hosts. The Brisbane conference closed with the 73 registered participants voting to sustain this forum and to formalise it.

The Australian Control Room Network Association was registered with ASIC on the 9th November 2017. An Association committee was established with the main aims to seek corporate membership and to hold a conference in mid to late 2018.

Two foundation corporate memberships were established with Jemena and Transurban. The three day conference was held in Parramatta in November 2018, with the Association’s inaugural AGM held on day 3 with 55 people voting in a management committee of 11 and confirming the common goal to share and improve their knowledge of control room operation and design.

Newsletter

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Follow the main events, and make your contribution, in the ACRNA Newsletters.