CMPA Annual Report

GAVIN MOREIRA, CMPA’s Administration Officer, provides a summary of the CMPA Annual Report. The following demonstrates that although it’s been another year of challenges and changes at the CMPA, that overall it has been a great year of achievement for our industry.

CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT – TIM BIRD

Over the last year the CMPA has continued its aim of lifting the standards in the manner in which our Members’ conduct their business activities; be it training, networking, occupational health and safety, industry regulator relationships or the way we have conveyed our input into legislative changes.

The CMPA has continued our advocacy work with the state government and opposition over the last twelve months, as we have always had an even approach to the way we consult, it has held us in good stead for the change of government and we have been able to directly lobby our concerns, frustrations and ideas to the new ministers and their most senior advisors.

Industry networking is also an important aspect of the work of the CMPA and several workshops and training days were organised during the year by the CMPA to address key safety issues. Industry operators, equipment suppliers and regulators met together at workshops on blast management and slope stability to help resolve these issues. Shotfirers refresher training was also held to assist our members in renewing their blasting tickets.

The CMPA Secretariat continues to represent Members views to Government on a whole range of issues, here is just some of the issues that have been worked on in the last twelve months.

• GAA – Urban Growth Boundary Review
• VCEC – Inquiry into Victoria’s Regulatory Framework
• WorkSafe Victoria – Guidance Notes, Preventing Falls from Quarry Faces
• VicRoads – Revision of Standard Section 831
• DPI – MRSDA Review Phase 2, Financial Assurance and Rehabilitation Bonds

These are just a few of the many submissions that have been made in the past twelve months and it is a credit to our small but extremely efficient secretariat and their advisors that make this happen.

EDUCATION COMMITTEE REPORT – GARRY CRANNY

The emphasis of CMPA education in 2011 has been a continuation of our focus on the development and facilitation of industry based training. While this training is aimed primarily at the safety and development of employees, in so doing, it simultaneously reduces risk and improves the productivity and sustainability of member’s businesses.

To that end, the CMPA provides:

• Seed capital for the development of identified resources if those resources don’t already exist.
• Representation at national and state levels.
• Guidance to members and others in the industry.
• A conduit for information flow between participants, employers, RTOs and Governments alike.

Resource Development

The CMPA continues to develop reference manuals and checklists in most of the day-to-day areas of quarrying operations. The Management Committee encourages all members to purchase from the available range of CMPA educational resources. They have been developed by members, for members and they should be readily accessible to all your employees – in this regard do not underestimate the value of accessibility to these reference manuals when your site is visited, as it inevitably will be, by WorkSafe.

Continued Training of the Industry

The undertaking of further education and training requires significant commitment, it can be as challenging and time consuming as it is rewarding.

It therefore requires a high level of mutual cooperation and support from all involved if the desired outcomes – a safer, more productive and better skilled industry workforce – are to be achieved.

The CMPA will continue to work with all industry stakeholders to realise that effort and the achievement of beneficial outcomes for the extractive industry.

The Future

The CMPA must continue to answer the challenge of convincing governments, the bureaucracy and other decision makers that we are a credible organisation representing a vital industry that contributes to the economic prosperity of the State and delivers a broad range of social benefits to the general community. It is our shared responsibility to identify and develop our next generation of extractive industry leaders for professional development.

We need to make significant and ongoing investment in those people from within our membership who demonstrate the personal qualities, the professional capacity and the required motivation to assume the leadership mantle of the CMPA.

ASSOCIATE CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT – MARK THOMPSON

In 2011 our Associate members have been actively “getting to know your customer” with good results. By adopting the back to basics approach we have been able to steadily grow our businesses within the CMPA community and ensure the members have the very best in products, customer service and advice.

We would encourage all members to acknowledge the contribution by Associates and their representatives; you will be surprised how far a simple thank you from a member can grow a relationship.

TREASURER’S REPORT – ROBIN HOCKING

The 2010/11 financial year has been a busy and productive year for the CMPA achieving a handy financial profit. The profit is more than originally budgeted for due primarily to a reduction in employment costs associated with the change over in Secretariat personnel and additional membership and advertising revenue.

The major sources of income were membership subscriptions, meetings and events, newsletter and publication sales. All of these aspects were higher than 2009/10 therefore overall Income was higher than the previous year.

Employment expenses were the single largest expense in 2010/11. This covered two full time employees and two part time employees. Other expenses included publications, consultants and the cost of holding meetings and events. The expenditure was less than last year.

SECRETARIAT’S REPORT – SARAH ANDREW

Position Holders

The main change this financial year has been the engagement of Bruce McClure in the role of General Manager. He fills a position that arose with Roger’s departure and remained vacant for a short period.

Bruce comes to the CMPA with a family history in the industry (via McClure Earthmoving) and a long personal history of working within VicRoads. More recently, Bruce has worked at a number of local councils.

This year has also seen the engagement of Sean Kinder in the role of Documentation Officer. He also brings with him a family history in the industry (via his parent’s company Kinder & Co) and he is presently studying engineering at university.

Sarah has continued assisting on a casual basis, particularly in the preparation of submissions and providing Bruce with the CMPA’s history.

Through the course of this year, the Secretariat has travelled a total of 10,076kms to meetings with our Members and stakeholders. Key parties met with on multiple occasions include the Department of Primary Industries – Mineral & Petroleum Branch, various Voting and Associate Members in the course of Gavin’s, Sean’s and Adrian’s work, and various state Ministers.

Information Flow

Throughout 2010/11 the Secretariat has attempted as always to keep Members well informed. This has seen us maintain our usual communication channels (Sand & Stone magazine, and periodic safety and workplace updates), it has also seen greater emphasis placed on the web version of the magazine and, in the member’s only area of the website, the submissions we have made on Member’s behalf.

Once again, I would like to highlight the essential support received by the CMPA from our valued Associate Members who regularly advertise in Sand & Stone and otherwise support the CMPA. We cannot stress how much this assists the association and I would again ask Voting Members in return to use the skills of our Associate Members when possible.

Membership

As the new financial year commences, we are proud to report that the Association’s membership has continued to grow over the past 12 months, with an even growth across the membership categories.

Submissions

The CMPA regularly makes submissions to Government and other regulatory bodies when it believes an issue will have an effect on Members’ businesses.

Below is a list of submissions produced over the last twelve months. Copies of all these submissions are available on the CMPA website.

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