The IQA has successfully trialled pilot education program in the Torres Strait. Paul Sutton reports on the success of a qualifications and coaching project for workers at Horn Island Quarry.
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Miriam Watters: The Lass from Tanganyika
When Doug Prosser first approached Miriam Watters for an interview, her immediate reaction was surprise, peppered with modest protests that there were many others in the quarry industry more worthy and interesting. Yet, as Doug explains, Miriam is herself a woman with a very worldly story.
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Mental health in the workplace
Are you looking out for your workers and are they looking out for their mates? Damian Christie discusses the very real challenges of mental illness and its impact on occupational health and safety in the workplace ...
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Silica miner cuts jobs in the north
North Stradbroke Island miner Sibelco has warned staff to expect job cuts as it winds back production of silica sand at its Vance mine in June.
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Brands: What are you really buying into?
Some brands and registered products command more respect and trust than others. In certain industries, the trust companies have in the brands their suppliers offer can mean not only greater profitability and productivity, but sometimes the difference between a supplier?s viability and insolvency.
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A customised approach to fleet management
Robert Caprile outlines how ALCAMiE, a customised set of asset management systems and processes, can transform the way quarrying and mining companies manage the whole life cycle of their assets.
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Drive train efficiency yields solid gains
Consideration of the ?total systems efficiency? of a drive solution allows quarry operators and OEMs to save energy and maintenance costs while improving site safety.
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Recycling plant crushes energy concerns
You might think a recycled aggregates company could excuse itself from undertaking other sustainable initiatives because it is already "doing the right thing" environmentally. Not the Alex Fraser Group, whose entire ethos is to "make carbon history", which it is demonstrating daily.
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Are you smarter than a third grader?
This month Bill Langer takes a trip back to the classroom ? and discovers that kids are more perceptive about rocks and minerals than the average adult!
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New service under supplier umbrella
After several years as a dealer of mineral processing equipment, a local
Queensland company has now launched its own customised plant and
equipment arm.
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