A game-change for engine emissions
Diesel engines power most of the world’s off-road construction equipment and produce exhaust emissions that contain some harmful pollutants such as nitrogen oxides (NOx)...
Author : Charles Fairbairn
Hand-made in Wine Country
HUGH DE LACY traces the development of a South Island schist business from the humblest of all quarrying beginnings – breaking rocks by hand. A...
The new safety czar
He’s the new extractives industry safety czar. He’s from the coalmines of Scotland – and his background includes a Pike River experience of his...
Speaking from experience
Q&M magazine talks to an industry stalwart about the new health and safety regulations and their future implementation. Andy Loader, the chief executive of the...
What price a workplace death?
HUGH DE LACY reviews the aftermath of a series of multi-fatality workplace disasters, including Pike River, and asks if there’s one rule for private company...
Consent issues for Gold Dredging operation
PETER OWENS reviews the trials and tribulations of a small gold dredging operation on the Clutha River in Otago. The “mini-storm in a tea cup”...
The mining gamble
LINDSAY CLARK sat in on a presentation by GEOFF LOUDON, who chairs two small Kiwi mining companies, on mining investment. Geoff Loudon is a prominent...
Pugmill Rules
ALAN TITCHALL catches up with one of the busiest quarries in the Waikato region and finds out why the pugmill could become a more a...
Understanding WorkSafe NZ
Since December 16, 2013 WorkSafe New Zealand has dealt with all workplace health and safety matters, taking over responsibility from the Health and Safety group...
Workplace Health and Safety in perspective
In today’s world of competing internet and print publishing it pays to maximise the strengths of your particular sector, and magazines have a huge advantage...