General Meeting
GAVIN MOREIRA, Member Services Manager for CMPA reports on the first General Meeting held via Microsoft Teams for CMPA members. On 21 May 2020, the CMPA held its first webinar via Microsoft Teams, it was a General Meeting on two…
Education
Conflict Resolution
MIKE CAMERON, Executive, Business & Leadership Coach for Strategically Yours looks at the concept of Conflict Resolution in the workplace. (Associate Member of the CMPA since 2008) Definition of Conflict The state in a relationship or interaction where two or…
EPA Reducing Risk in the Premixed Concrete Industry
Following on from EPA’s article in Sand & Stone issue 109 regarding “Helping you manage risk to the environment” further information is given on EPA’s Reducing Risk in the Premixed Concrete Industry (Guideline) publication number 1806 from December 2019. Table…
Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA): Helping you manage risk to the environment
What the new environment protection laws will mean for you. New environment protection laws are intended to come into effect from 1 July 2020. These laws will require all businesses to manage the risks of harm to people and the…
Water Management Workshop
GAVIN MOREIRA, Member Services Manager for CMPA reports on the successful day held in the East Gippsland area of Victoria for CMPA members. On 21st November 2019 the CMPA held a workshop to develop a Template/Guideline on Water Management Plans…
Current VET Development Projects
DR ELIZABETH GIBSON, General Manager of the CMPA provides an update on the current VET system for the extractive industry. Under the current VET system, the following units/skill sets are being developed with a brief description of the case for…
Cleaning out a Pugmill
GAVIN MOREIRA, Member Services Manager from the CMPA provides an extract from the soon to be completed CMPA’s “Conduct Blending Plant Operations Reference Manual” providing some handy hints on maintaining your pugmill. Pugmills are the main component of the blending…
Dust Management Workshop 2019
CMPA Secretariat reports on the successful Dust Management workshop recently held in Tullamarine for CMPA members. The Dust Management Workshop was held on Thursday 23 May 2019 at the Quality Hotel Melbourne Airport Tullamarine commencing at 9:00 am and was…
Traffic Management Guidelines – Updated
GAVIN MOREIRA, CMPA Member Services Manager reports on the updated CMPA publication – Traffic Management in the Construction Materials Industry. In 2019 several CMPA Publications will be completed and ready for Members to update their libraries. The second of these…
The key to successful leadership
Strategically Yours® assists people (business owners, executives, managers, supervisors) to move from working IN the business, to working ON the business, through coaching in the following core competencies: Planning; Organising; Leading and Controlling These can be supported by facilitated group…