ROSS KELLY, Business Manager for The William Adams Institute reports on the training courses available to the extractive industry. THE William Adams Institute has set a new benchmark in the provision of quality vocational education and training for our related industries and customers. Our industry specific learning programs utilise new and emerging technologies with immediate …
GAVIN MOREIRA , Administration Officer of the CMPA provides an overview of the new Personal Work Record Book. THE purpose behind the Personal Work Record Book is to provide individual employees with a singular, centralised location to document evidence of skills they have learnt in the work place. It provides evidence to support employee competency …
With the ever changing landscape and economic conditions it is important that directors know their responsibilities. If you are or have recently been made a director of a company you need to understand these law changes as this could significantly affect your personal wealth position. JOHN PITITTO, Partner of Mead Partners – Chartered Accountants has …
JOHN MITAS, General Manager Minerals & Extractive Operations, reports on the new mining laws to strengthen earth resources regulation. THE Victorian Coalition Government has introduced amendments to mining laws to strengthen the enforcement powers of the State’s mining and extractive industry regulator. Energy and Resources Minister Michael O’Brien said the Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) Amendment …
PETER MCCLUSKEY provides an update on the Victorian Limestone Producers Association. THE VLPA held its AGM & annual conference in Springvale on the 18th of October 2012. The Chairman Kevin Matthews spoke about projects undertaken during the foregoing year and said it was pleasing to see a good attendance of members from various regions given …
CHRIS PROWSE, Managing Director of C.K. Prowse & Associates Pty Ltd, reports on the development of the business. C.K. Prowse & Associates was ‘born’ in 1989 following from my experiences in the quarrying and minerals industries in most Australian states to that time. With the exposure to new technologies and methodologies in exploration and development, …
CMPA Honorary Voting Member, TOM MCKENNY recalls his involvement in the quarry industry and the development of his career in journalism. THE quarry industry wasn’t something that I had bargained on becoming involved in when I started my journalism career in 1980. Beginning university at 17, I had more romantic notions of becoming a foreign …
KELVIN WILSON, Sales Manager of TSS Company reports on the new home for the Melbourne based engineering group. TSS Company, and its subsidiary Conveyor Pulleys Australia, have relocated into their new office and manufacturing facility in Carrum Downs, Victoria. Servicing the bulk materials handling industry for more than 40 years, TSS/CPA provides engineering design and …