The 2022 CMPA Annual Dinner was held at the Wangaratta Gateway. CMPA Member Services Manager, Gavin Moreira, reviews the return of our special night. It has been three years since our last Annual Dinner, usually the biggest event on the…
RECENT EVENTS • Discussions with GHD regarding the update to the CMPA Geotechnical Guideline via MS Teams. In attendance was D. McKelvie and E. Gibson• John Krbaleski Head of Resources from ERR caught up with E. Gibson via MS Teams•…
The CMPA produced a Review of Rehabilitation and Bond Framework for Quarries in Victoria March 2022. A letter (with the Review) was sent to the Minister for Resources The Hon Jaala Pulford, MP detailing the recommendations in the CMPA Review…
Presentation given by Emmalene Gottwald, Director, Biodiversity Protection and Information, Biodiversity Division, Environment and Climate Action Group DELWP at the CMPA General Meeting. A priority action of the Extractive Resources Strategy (released in 2018 and available from https://earthresources.vic.gov. au/projects/extractive-resources-strategy) is…
GAVIN MOREIRA, CMPA Member Services Manager, provides a summary of the CMPA Annual Report. Chairperson’s Report – Jason Comben Following is a summary of the Chairperson’s report by Jason Comben prepared by Dr Elizabeth Gibson. The most important set of…
GAVIN MOREIRA, Member Services Manager for CMPA provides an update on the Working Safely with Geotechnical Risk in Quarries Workshop held in Traralgon. On 4th August 2022, the CMPA held a workshop to support Members in meeting the requirements of…
GAVIN MOREIRA, Member Services Manager for CMPA provides an update on the General Meeting held in Traralgon. Following a very successful site visit and Geotech workshop earlier in the day, next up was a General Meeting of members. An opportunity…
ANITA MACARTNEY, Director Mactown Consulting Mactown Consulting has partnered with WorkSafe Victoria to develop tailored safety tools for small quarries, to help operators meet their legal occupational health and safety (OHS) obligations and improve how they document systems of work.…
APRIL EVERITT, Jack of all trades. I have been working at the CMPA now for just over four months. Before starting at CMPA, I was running my own T/A business – Mobile Dustless Blasting. It was doing extremely well until…
Written by DAVID MCKELVIE, Director of SafeMix, a WHS consultancy that specialises in supporting the Construction Materials Industry. (CMPA Member since 2004). Providing instruction to workers on how to safely conduct their roles is not only imperative to ensuring a…