DPI Update (Issue 31)
Targeted Audit of Tailings Storage Facilities (TSFs) Have you ever asked yourself where tailings storage facility management begins? Well, now is the time to refresh your memory, because MPR will be conducting tailings storage facilities audits during the months of March, April and May 2007. Tailings Storage Facilities contain unrecoverable and uneconomic metals, minerals, chemicals, …
Standards (Issue 31)
Safety of Machinery The design, manufacture and installation of machinery have an impact on the safety of users. By eliminating OHS hazards during the design process, the result may be safer workplaces and a reduction in the incidence of occupational diseases, injury and fatality and the associated costs. NOHSC—Statistics on the consequence of failure to …
Legislation (Issue 31)
Streamlining Victoria’s OHS regulations: an overview Victoria’s 13 existing occupational health and safety (OHS) regulations are being reviewed and consolidated into a single, streamlined document. Together with the modernised Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004, a new streamlined regulation will improve health and safety in Victoria by making it easier for employers and workers to …
Submissions and Issues (Issue 31)
Goolengook Forest Investigation On 21 December 2006 the Victorian Environmental Assessment Council (VEAC) received advice from the Minister for Water, Environment & Climate Change of the withdrawal of the request to investigate the Goolengook Forest. The withdrawal was signed by the Minister on 15 December and is pursuant to section 15 (6)(b) of the VEAC …
Education (Issue 31)
Mobile Plant Training Having delivered three Service & Handover Front End Loader courses, the Caterpillar Institute is ready to take on the world with several new units. This will result in detailed training specific to construction material processing businesses available for loader, haul truck and excavator at both a service and handover and operate level. …
CJD Apprenticeship Excellence
Employee wins “Apprentice of the Year” again For the second year running, Luke Jackson has won Apprentice of the Year as a heavy earthmoving mechanic. Apprenticeship Training Organisation, GTES, supplies the apprentices for CJD Equipment in Campbellfield where Luke is currently undertaking his apprenticeship. This is Luke’s second Apprentice of the Year award. Last year …
Maintenance Management Accreditation
Heavy vehicle operator’s responsibilities for maintaining their vehicles Maintenance Management Accreditation encourages heavy vehicle operators to take more responsibility for maintaining their vehicles correctly and ensuring that they are always in good mechanical condition. It helps you to manage your business more efficiently, partly because you will have clear procedures to ensure that your vehicles …
Good Security, Good Business
Plan now and protect your business Business survival requires planning for the unexpected. In addition to the constant pressures of the marketplace, your business is at risk from a range of hazards outside your control. Planning for an accident and working out how your business will respond and recover are some of the most important …
Vic Roads Specifications
Review and update of a number of Standards In recent discussions with Graeme Newman of VicRoads-GeoPave, it was related that VicRoads has been embarking the review and update of a number of its standard sections which are incorporated into current VicRoads contract specifications. The primary aim of this review and update is to ensure that …