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Issue 117 – Jun/Jul 2021

Benefits of Membership

Benefits of Membership

GAVIN MOREIRA, Member Services Manager of CMPA reports on the benefits to your business for being a CMPA Member. The CMPA is recognised as the principal advocate for the Construction Material Processors Industry in Victoria. The success of CMPA, the peak body in Victoria for family, private, Council and State Government quarries; and recyclers; is…

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From the Secretariat (Issue 117)

From the Secretariat (Issue 117)

New Annual Reporting requirements 2020-21 DR ELIZABETH GIBSON, CMPA General Manager Under the Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) (Extractive Industries) Regulations 2019, additional reporting requirements apply to work authority holders from the 2020-21 financial year. These include providing the:• most recent…

CMPA News (Issue 117)

CMPA News (Issue 117)

CMPA Secretariat RECENT NEWS • EPA Waste Framework Overview, MS Teams, attended by E.Gibson• DoT heavy vehicles licencing reform attended by E. Gibson• DJPR’s overview of economic modelling project; attended by Garry Cranny, Jason Rudge, Tim Bird, Cameron Black, Craig…

VAGO Rehabilitating Mines

VAGO Rehabilitating Mines

Following is a series of comments from RON KERR, CMPA Honorary CEO. in response to the Victorian Auditor General’s Office (VAGO) report Rehabilitating Mines (1). I, like many of those in our industry who hold or manage Work Authorities, am…

Construction Material Production Statistics

Construction Material Production Statistics

DR ELIZABETH GIBSON, General Manager of the CMPA. Tables 1-10. In summary the annual reporting by the extractive industry may contain inaccuracies such as incorrect groupings; internal transfers distorting the rates which may bring into question the integrity of the…

Orica’s Major Hazards Program

Orica’s Major Hazards Program

Orica Australia Quarry Services (Associate Members since 2000) provided a presentation at the CMPA Blast Management Webinar. This extract looks at Blast Crew Safety. The Major Hazards Program is the core of safety management at Orica. Launched in 2016, it…

Worksafe Victoria ERTS update

Worksafe Victoria ERTS update

GAVIN MOREIRA, Members Services Manager for the CMPA provides a brief report on the latest incidents as reported to WorkSafe Victoria. The latest Earth Resources Tripartite Safety Forum was held via MS Teams back on 3rd June 2021. The following…

New CMPA Administration Officer

New CMPA Administration Officer

ABBY EAGER, Administration Officer for the CMPA eyes a bright future within the industry. Since starting at the CMPA in the middle of April I have grown my knowledge in the Extractive Industry and if I am honest an industry,…

PACCAR celebrates 50 years of Australian Manufacturing

PACCAR celebrates 50 years of Australian Manufacturing

It was on 2 March 1971, that the first Australian made Kenworth truck rolled off the production line at Bayswater, Victoria. Fifty years, 60 models and more than 70,000 trucks later, employees have celebrated that history-making day with government officials,…

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