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CMPA Annual General Meeting

By Gavin Moreira

GAVIN MOREIRA, CMPA Member Services Manager, provides a summary of the CMPA AGM. On 27th August 2021, the CMPA Annual General Meeting was held for the second time electronically on Microsoft Teams. The online event was hosted by Dr Elizabeth Gibson, General Manager of the CMPA and was attended by about 30 members and observers. …

CMPA Annual Report

By Gavin Moreira

GAVIN MOREIRA, CMPA Member Services Manager, provides a summary of the CMPA Annual Report. Chairperson’s Report – Garry Cranny Following is a summary of the Chairperson’s report by Garry Cranny prepared by Dr Elizabeth Gibson. The most important set of issues confronting the Extractive Industries sector remains those pertaining to the identification, security and certainty …

Pre-employment Functional Assessments – are they important?

By Gavin Moreira

Coverforce Insurance Broking (CMPA Associate Members since 2010) reports on the importance of conducting timely and accurate functional assessments. Musculoskeletal injuries and disorders continue to be the leading Work Health & Safety (WHS) challenge for many industries and are associated with long-term, costly impacts for both employers and employees. Implementing Pre-employment Functional Assessments (PEFAs) in …

SmartTech Australia Expands its LOADRITE Support in Regional Victoria & New South Wales

By Gavin Moreira

SmartTech Australia, the nation’s leading Trimble LOADRITE dealer, has taken steps to expand their service and support for their customers in the region of Albury-Wodonga (Associate members since 2000). SmartTech Australia began in 2017, expanding from SITECH WA with just four employees to establish the groundworks. In twelve short months, they had acquired Trimble LOADRITE …

Milbrae and Mawsons join

By Gavin Moreira

The Woods and Mawson families along with Mawsons’ joint venture partners, Adbri, are very pleased to advise their valued employees, customers, contractors and suppliers that they have signed contracts under which Mawsons will purchase Milbrae’s concrete, quarry, mobile crushing and mining services businesses. The sale is effective from October 1st, 2021. Combining the Milbrae and …

From the Secretariat (Issue 117)

By Gavin Moreira

New Annual Reporting requirements 2020-21 DR ELIZABETH GIBSON, CMPA General Manager Under the Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) (Extractive Industries) Regulations 2019, additional reporting requirements apply to work authority holders from the 2020-21 financial year. These include providing the:• most recent stone resources estimate for the work authority,• density of the stone before extraction,• stratigraphic unit …

Job Opportunities (Issue 117)

By Gavin Moreira

Available in both member quarries and supplier businesses. These ads are free as a benefit of being a CMPA member. For listing enquiries phone: 03 5781 0655 or Email: enquiries@cmpavic.asn.au

Benefits of Membership

By Gavin Moreira

GAVIN MOREIRA, Member Services Manager of CMPA reports on the benefits to your business for being a CMPA Member. The CMPA is recognised as the principal advocate for the Construction Material Processors Industry in Victoria. The success of CMPA, the peak body in Victoria for family, private, Council and State Government quarries; and recyclers; is …