All posts by Gavin Moreira

  • Maintaining Safety around Conveyors and Feeders

    Maintaining Safety around Conveyors and Feeders with proper guarding and work practices is an important OHS issue within the extractive industry. Below is an extract from the CMPA’s Work Safely Reference Manual regarding FIXED PLANT – CONVEYORS...

    • Posted March 19, 2010
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  • REHABILITATION BONDS AND YOU

    Rehabilitation bonds on a reasonable sized quarry operation can place a significant financial liability on the business. ROGER BUCKLEY, CMPA Executive Director, explains how the system works and provides some practical guidance on how to reduce your...

    • Posted March 19, 2010
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  • The New Quarry Industry Award

    As of 1 January 2010, the new modern Quarrying Award 2010 together with the new National Employment Standards outline the basic working conditions for employees covered by the national workplace relations system. ROGER BUCKLEY reports. THE development...

    • Posted March 19, 2010
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  • CMPA: Representing Industry To Government

    A key part of the work of the CMPA is to act as an industry champion, informing Government on behalf of its Members on the impacts of proposed Government policy and to work towards reducing red tape...

    • Posted March 18, 2010
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  • MANAGING DUST

    Managing dust on your site so that dust emissions are minimised, impacts on neighbours are managed and health of workers maintained can be a costly and time consuming issue. DR LYN DENISON, Principal Scientist – Air Quality,...

    • Posted March 18, 2010
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  • MARYVALE SAND AND TRADING SUPPLIES

    PETER HEYWOOD provides an overview of the family business that has been supplying sand to the Latrobe Valley region for over 50 years. Maryvale Sand started operation in 1957 as a partnership between Bruce Heywood and Albert...

    • Posted March 18, 2010
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  • An Unsustainable Future Case Study – The Real Costs of Red Tape

    The CMPA published the An Unsustainable Future: The prohibitive costs of securing access to construction material resources in Victoria report in late 2009. The summary of this report was published in Sand & Stone Edition 47. This...

    • Posted March 18, 2010
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  • FROM THE CMPA SECRETARIAT (Issue 49)

    Factoring Interruption into Your Budget Honorary CEO, RON KERR, reflects on the impact to budgets that the breaking of the drought and financial stability brings. HAVING an affinity with both quarrying and farming, one can presently reflect...

    • Posted March 18, 2010
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  • Allstone Upgrade With A Plus……..K400+

    A new entrant in a well established and extremely competitive market, Astec Australia, reports CRAIG BATTEN. ALLSTONE Quarries recently installed a Johnson Crushers International (“JCI”) Kodiak K400+ cone crusher at its Newbridge quarry site in central Victoria,...

    • Posted January 18, 2010
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  • Lockout System Cuts Delays, Gives Added Security

    Management of lockout tags and associated systems can be frustrating for employers and staff, reports PAUL TAYLOR of Super Signs. LOCKOUT procedures provide workers in potentially hazardous environments with protection from accidents caused by inadvertent or unauthorized...

    • Posted January 18, 2010
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