The Road to Zero Emissions in Australian Transport
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 Outstanding Committee Award: Earthmoving Equipment Committee: ME-063
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 [...]
Getting ahead of the skills shortage
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 [...]
Chairman’s Address – May 2022
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 [...]
Excavator Lifting as a Secondary Function
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 [...]
Standard: DR AS 13031:2022 Earthmoving Machinery – Quick couplers – Safety
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. [...]
CMEIG introduces new Sustainability Guide
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 [...]
CMEIG measures industry wide injury and illness statistics as a basis of improving outcomes
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 reviews industry skills training
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 [...]
Equipment distributors warn about pitfalls of buying “grey market” machines
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 [...]
New Regulatory Advice on light to medium heavy vehicles released
The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) has released new regulatory advice about identifying and managing the safety risks of light to medium heavy vehicles. This follows the regulatory advice piece to help industry and the supply chain better understand Chain of Responsibility laws. Operators or owners of light to medium [...]
Adblue supply stabilised
Over the Christmas through February period, CMEIG has been actively involved with the National Co-ordination group to ensure the availability of Adblue supplies. Adblue is a critical additive to diesel engines and ensuring supply availability is consistent with CMEIG member’s aims of reducing emissions. With circa 200,000 pieces of equipment [...]