A new Australian telecommunications start-up promises to provide more economical machine to machine communications solutions for a range of industries, including quarrying. (Source: Quarry Magazine) Click here for related link.
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NZ launches guidelines in response to fatalities
After a succession of fatalities this year, New Zealand has unveiled good practice guidelines for quarrying. (Source: Quarry Magazine) Click here for related link. Click here for link to Guidelines.
Safety alert – Sudden burst of truck tyre
INCIDENT:– While reversing an electric drive haul truck to a parked position last month, the driver’s off-side (position two) tyre suddenly failed and burst. Pressurised air was blast into the… Read more »
Safety alert – Workers hurt when pressurised fluid escapes
INCIDENT:- While carrying out weekend maintenance activities on an excavator in October, three workers were exposed to a high pressure fluid release ending in two people being taken to hospital… Read more »
Use of Best Practices to reduce injuries from non-powered hand tool accidents
Injuries from hand tools accounted for the third-most common injuries in the aggregates injury. Use of these best practices can reduce injuries from non-powered hand tools. (Source: National Stone, Sand… Read more »
Option offered to reduce quarry rehab costs
A new payment option recently introduced by the Victorian Government means quarry operators and small-scale miners can now use cash bonds to cover up to $20,000 of their site rehabilitation… Read more »
Secretariat Meeting with Tony Robinson – 3 December 2015
Meeting with Tony Robinson, Acting General Manager Operations, Earth Resources Regulation, Melbourne and Dr Elizabeth Gibson with discussions around a number of issues such as the annual compliance program.
Secretariat Meeting – 3 December 2015
Extractive Industry Taskforce DEDJTR (Supply and Demand of construction materials in Victoria to 2050), Melbourne and Dr Elizabeth Gibson concerning an update on the project’s status.
Secretariat Meeting – 1 December 2015
Meeting with Ross McGowan, Executive Director Earth Resources Regulation, Melbourne and Dr Elizabeth Gibson to discuss risk based work plans, catchment management authorities and other issues related to Earth Resources… Read more »
Driver trapped after drill rig rolls onto cliff edge at Keperra quarry
A man was trapped for more than an hour and a half in the cabin of his 20 tonne vehicle as it teetered precariously on a cliff edge at a quarry in Brisbane’s… Read more »