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Mining Professional Unemployment Skyrockets whilst Exports Boom. Data released today in the AusIMM's annual Mining Professional Employment Survey shows that 1 in 6 Australian mining industry professionals is out of work. The current 16.2% unemployment rate is in stark contrast to the height of the boom in 2012 when only 1.7% was reported as unemployed. In comparison, Australia's national unemployment rate sits at a respectable 6.1%. Where will we be in 12 months time??
The seminal deming cycle (Plan – Do – Check – Act) is one of the most frequently used models to describe what and how things should be done in regards to managing health and safety. Its beauty is in how succinctly it sums up the range of actions that are to be undertaken to effectively manage a range of activities across all types of industry. The question often overlooked is how effectively is it being applied?
What can the mining industry learn from the Day/Night Test Match?
Coal's new normal - just like the old normal...
Administration: noun the act of making productive people unproductive.
What's the point? This is a question often asked in exasperation at the tribulations of your latest challenge. Where this question is rarely used, but perhaps should get greater attention, is challenging the purpose of the administrative tasks that you are doing each day, week, and month. As was highlighted in Part 1, there are significant investments across all businesses being diverted into non-productive activities. And for what?