It is timely to release the fifth issue of CMPA News and the second for 2001 with the next General Meeting scheduled for November 30th 2001 at Digby’s Function Room (RSVP: 27th of November). Thanks must be extended to Action Bearings, Davies & Baird, Galesafe and Jim Roylance for sponsoring this meeting. In this issue …

Ken Mawson representing the Australian Institute of Quarrying Education Foundation dated 3rd September 2001 Congratulations on a highly successful evening which launched the CMPA Induction Handbook last Friday. You should be very proud of your efforts and the hard working committee members who organised the well attended event. Ian Graham, Chief Electrical Inspector dated 3rd …

The following abridged speech was written and delivered by Robert Durward, Director of the British Aggregates Association, to the Institute of Quarrying’s Annual Conference held in Dunblane on 5th October 2001. To assist in putting Robert’s speech into perspective remember that: 1/      The British Aggregates Association is the representative body for independent UK quarry operators. …

SUBMISSIONS EPA Draft Air Quality Improvement Plan On the 31st August 2001, CMPA representatives including Brendan Cooper, Ron Kerr, Basil Natoli and Len Thompson met with EPA representatives Lyn Dennison, Bill Millard and Jennifer Walcott, to discuss CMPA concerns with the proposed Base Load Monitoring and Neighbourhood Environment Improvement Plan. Jennifer Walcott explained why the …

Over recent months, we have been presented with various Guidelines that require the input of members before they are finalised. This is an excellent opportunity for those who are going to be governed by a document to contribute to the document. As such we have always sought for as much member input as possible and …

Duplication of Incident Notification for Work Authority sites An issue paper was submitted to the September EMIAB Meeting seeking agreement that all “specified incidents” on Work Authority sites which at this time should be notified to both Work Cover and the DNRE, be reported only to the DNRE. Duplication in this area is unacceptable. The …

CMPA Induction Hand Book [IH] After editing by Andrew Shaw and numerous adjustments carried out by Glenn Jordan, the IH is almost finalised for printing. It is with much relief therefore that we can inform all that the IH should be complete for sale by December. The Management Committee have agreed to sell the Induction …