When it comes to air quality control, the onus is increasingly on the quarry rather than regulators to ensure best practice is met, according to Golder & Associates.
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LafargeHolcim to put rebranding to a vote
The world’s largest producer of cement, LafargeHolcim, has proposed to change its name, if only slightly.
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Construction giant gets tick of approval following USG Boral sale
Industrial services and media giant Seven Group Holdings has once again increased its stake in Boral, upping its ownership past one fifth of the company to 22.984 per cent.
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Meeting global silica demand, thanks to Indigenous miners
Metallica Minerals silica sands mine in Queensland’s far north has been recognised for its Indigenous employment and production results.
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Seven characteristics of effective leadership
In the first part of a new educational series, Mike Cameron discusses the qualities and traits of “Emerging Leaders” in organisations and what makes them qualified to not only manage other people but have complete confidence and assurance in themselves.
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NSW regulator to assess quarry water management
The effects of water erosion around New South Wales quarries will be assessed on-site by the state’s Natural Resources Access Regulator (NRAR) in the Northern Rivers, Hunter and Sydney Metro areas.
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Drone approvals cut from weeks to seconds
An app-based approval system will be trialled by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority and Airservices Australia, for the use of drones by commercial operators.
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A breath of fresh air with the right data
Clean air is one of the most basic and fundamental expectations for quality of life. As Roger Cudmore and Cameron S McNaughton discuss, regardless of where we live, we all want to be confident that the air we breathe isn’t going to harm our health, or the health of the living things in our environment.
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Statewide inspection blitz to ensure safety for all quarries
Teams of inspectors will be arriving unannounced at large quarries across Victoria this month following an electric shock incident last September.
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As heatwaves become more extreme, which jobs are riskiest?
Heat is more dangerous than the cold in most Australian regions. About two per cent of deaths in Australia between 2006 and 2017 were associated with the heat, and the estimate increases to more than four per cent in the nation’s northern and central parts.
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