Conflict between the old industry licences and the new industry leases It has been drawn to our attention over the past few months, that there may be Work Authority holders (those extracting material from Crown land) who would not have current leases in place with the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE). This, in most …
Fourth CMPA Hazard & Risk Identification Workshop – Guarding Yesterday my father and I were driving around the quarry and I explained to him about today’s proceedings. His response was “What a load of bulls**t.” I had to remind dad that the world has changed. Since the Extractive Industries Development Act and self regulation, the …
Gippsland: The word around the industry for this region is that rock and sand sales have stabilized over the past 12 months. The future outlook for the region is extremely promising. West Gippsland Water have announced that plans are underway for the building of a Water Factory in the Morwell region, this will supply recycled …
Over the last two months, the CMPA has been relatively busy finishing off a number of projects that have been around for some time. This has seen the production and release of the ‘OHS Support in Quarries 03 – Hazards and Controls in Fixed Plant Operations’ and the next installment of the Education Newsletter. We …