All posts by Emma Morrison
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WorkSafe – OH&S Regulations Discussion Paper
The CMPA had the opportunity to comment on the Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) Regulations Discussion Paper, presented in the first SRG meeting in November 2025. CMPA is a member of WorkSafe’s Mines, Quarries and Petroleum Stakeholder...
- Posted March 24, 2026
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EPA Financial Assurances
Dr Elizabeth Gibson, General Manager CMPA and Matt Skidmore, General Manager City Circle Group provided the CMPA submission to EPA’s Draft Methods for Calculating Financial Assurance for Bulk Storage, Onsite Soil Retention and Waste and Resource Recovery....
- Posted March 24, 2026
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Workplace Exposure Limits
Dr Elizabeth Gibson General Manager CMPA provides the CMPA submission to WorkSafe Victoria’s Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Workplace Exposure Limits) Regulations. WorkSafe Victoria provided the opportunity to comment on the Occupational Health and Safety Amendment (Workplace...
- Posted March 24, 2026
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Manage your Geotechnical Risk
We recently updated the CMPA ‘Working Safely with Geotechnical Risk in Quarries’ Guideline. While we featured new content relating to Section 8 of the guideline in the last Sand & Stone, the following new content relates to...
- Posted March 24, 2026
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Collaboration and enforcement key to reducing harm
Every Victorian worker deserves to return home safely at the end of their shift. It’s a principle that drives WorkSafe Victoria’s engagement with workplaces across the state, including those in Victoria’s extractives industry, such as quarrying, mining...
- Posted March 24, 2026
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Slimes Management Guideline
We recently updated the Slimes Management Guideline – Issue 2 | 2025 It has been circulated for review to a cross section of CMPA members. When we have received and collated feedback, we will incorporate updates and...
- Posted March 24, 2026
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Kinder Australia celebrates staff
As Kinder celebrates 40 years of innovation and teamwork, they continue to spotlight the people who make their success possible. Anthony Ockers joined Kinder in October 2018 as a Field Applications Specialist, a position that offered him...
- Posted March 24, 2026
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Dust management, compliance risk and reliability
For Australia’s heavy industry balancing output and compliance, locally made is resonating across the sector. As regulators sharpen their focus on silica and respirable dust, and as communities grow more sensitive to air-quality impacts, Victorian quarries, concrete...
- Posted March 24, 2026
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Ultra-Dynamics talks about measurement and data
The quarry industry is becoming increasingly more competitive as a number of factors, including tighter environmental constraints, come into effect. In addition to this, customers are becoming more demanding regarding product specifications, demanding improved quality control.Budgetary constraints...
- Posted March 24, 2026
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Payday Super information for employers – How to prepare
From 1 July 2026, employers must pay their employees’ super each payday instead of at three month intervals. The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has released new factsheets, checklists and videos at ato.gov.au/PaydayResources to help you prepare for...
- Posted March 24, 2026








