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Well, 2020 continues to be a memorable year! Covid-19 dominates both immediate conditions and the market outlook. In mining, six-year high iron ore prices and record volumes are reflective of continued robust activity across the sector. In iron ore, supply disruptions ex Brazil have further underpinned the Australian market. Construction [...]

28th July 2020 The Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE) has updated the timeline for consultation Non Road Diesel Emissions. Timeline for NRDE Engagement - Industry (post COVID-19 Delay)

The attached NHVR documents provide advice on restraining Heavy Excavators and Attachments. NHVR information sheet – Class 1 load carrying vehicles Schedule 8 Division 2 Section 13 of HVNR (pages 103/104)

In conversation with Osama Ali - Chair Standards Australia Committee and CMEIG Engineering Working Group Osama (Oz) is a chartered professional engineer and Caterpillar’s Technical Advisor for product safety and compliance matters in the Australia-Pacific region. His formative experiences have included product design and development, product compliance management, and testing [...]

Victoria's new workplace manslaughter offences - Work Safe Victoria Putting people’s lives at risk in the workplace will not be tolerated. It is every employer’s responsibility to make sure their employees stay safe at work and return home every day. From today, if a workplace death is caused by criminal [...]

Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business Senator for Western Australia   1 July 2020 INaugural report of the National Skills commission   Today the Morrison Government’s newly established National Skills Commission (NSC) released its inaugural report “A Snapshot in time: The Australian labour [...]

Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business Senator for Western Australia   9 June 2020 EXTENDING THE INSTANT ASSET WRITE-OFF The Morrison Government continues to back small business with the announcement that it will extend the $150,000 instant asset write-off for six months to [...]

20 May 2020 For Information: Suspending engagement on the evaluation of a national approach to manage non-road diesel engine (NRDE) emissions in Australia until late August 2020 In response to disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic, I am writing to advise you we will suspend our engagement on our evaluation of [...]

Minister Allan - Corey Hannett Letter to Construction Companies April 2020

Refer the link as below: Ancillary Reports Fire Related To Mobile Plant 2020 Published In NSW-Gov-Gazette-No. 46 - 13 March 2020

What Is CIVENEX? CIVENEX is the Premier Local Government and Public Infrastructure Industry expo, where industry and Government meet.  CIVENEX gathers Local Councils and Government Engineers, Technicians, Public Works Directors Operations Managers, Asset and Design Managers, Contractors and many other Industry Professionals to an expo setting, to showcase new and [...]

Welcome to our quarterly CMEIG E-News. CMEIG has been active reviewing the categories of industry statistics for subscribing members, taking a proactive stance in engaging with mental wellbeing issues, reviewing apprentice training and publishing engineering papers in areas that affect the industry. Forthcoming presentations at our November meeting include on [...]