CMEIG were pleased to be a guest at the Australian Industry Group webinar on `The Road to Zero Emissions in Transport’. Whilst the content was ‘on-road’ based, the challenges and opportunities mirror those of off-road earthmoving equipment. Presenters included Toyota, Toll Holdings and Ampol. Takeaways included: That the Internal Combustion [...]
Standards Australia recently acknowledged Earthmoving Equipment Committee, ME-063, with the Outstanding Committee Award for 2022. CMEIG CEO, David Birrell, commented that two years ago industry considered that more could be done to expedite the development and international alignment of Australian earthmoving equipment standards to keep pace with emerging developments in [...]
Skills shortages are a challenge confronting the Australian economy. This extends beyond the shortfall of available employees to also having necessary industry skills in the immediate term and having a pathway to develop skills required to service and support emerging technologies in our industry. Three aspects of this are: Skills [...]
Whilst the weekend’s election results signal a major change in the Australian political landscape, it is pleasing that investment in infrastructure is planned to continue under a Labor Government. A standout consideration in this election was the emergence of the “teal” candidates that promoted the demands for more to [...]
CMEIG has been made aware of new operator licensing requirements in Western Australia where earthmoving machines (e.g. excavators, wheeled loaders and backhoe loaders) are used for lifting freely suspended loads. Western Australia’s implementation this year of the Australian Model Work Health and Safety (WHS) laws includes a requirement for [...]
AS 13031, Australia’s modified adoption of ISO 13031 – Earth-moving Machinery – Quick Couplers is now out for public comment until 20 July 2022. The publication of this document is intended to result in the withdrawal of AS 4772 - Earth-moving machinery - Quickhitches for excavators and backhoe loaders. [...]
The Construction Mining Equipment Industry Group (CMEIG) has introduced a guide for industry to project manage initiatives that delivers environmental, social and governance (ESG) change. David Birrell, Chief Executive Officer at CMEIG, commented that “the objective was to produce a template that could be used by industry for sustainability [...]
As part of understanding the causes of injury and illness in the industry, CMEIG’s HSE Working Group members have contributed to a summary of statistics over the past few years. Chair of the CMEIG HSE Working Group, Alison Stewart, commented that objective data, on an aggregated industry basis, is [...]
CMEIG has undertaken a review of the current skills training packages for apprentices. Key outcomes of the review are that whilst the training packages provide a solid foundation urgent future collaboration is required between Government and Industry (Skills Reform Australia Government) to address key developments such as `Autonomous Driver [...]
Australia’s construction equipment distributors have issued a warning about the potential risks of purchasing “new, “unused” or low- hour – often referred to as “grey market” – equipment imported outside of authorised OEM distribution channels. While the “grey iron” iron imports might be ok, there can be risks people should [...]