Monthly Archives:: March 2016

Draft Stakeholder Engagement Strategy 2016–2018 open for public comment. This is your chance to help shape a strategy that balances the stakeholder engagement needs and expectations of all stakeholders. Submissions… Read more »

Women in Energy and Resources – International Women’s Day Breakfast Event with Minister Lily D’Ambrosio, Melbourne, Attended by Dr Elizabeth Gibson.

A new resource has been released to help employers in male-dominated resource industries such as quarrying increase gender diversity within their workforces. The Australian Women in Resources Alliance (AWRA) launched… Read more »

Highlighting the risks associated with removing guards and using incorrect discs on angle grinders.(Source: WorkSafe Qld) Click here for related link.

An incident occurred on 8 January 2016 when a 13.4 tonne counterweight fell off the back of a mobile piling rig that was being assembled on a construction site in… Read more »

A worker had finished re-fueling an excavator and was in the process of stepping down onto the track to lay the fuel nozzle down when he fell.  (Source: US Mines… Read more »

A woman has died after the truck she was driving fell into a quarry at Nyora, in South Gippsland on last Tuesday (1 Mar 2016). It is understood the woman,… Read more »

A South Canterbury company NZ) who owned a lime quarry where a worker died has been convicted on a workplace safety charge after changing its plea from not guilty to… Read more »

Jane Sims, Box Hill TAFE, Box Hill to discuss education strategies, Ron Kerr and Elizabeth Gibson

The CMPA Management Committee held its first meeting for the year at the Kilmore Tennis Club. Thank you to the members that attended and a special thank you also to… Read more »