“You’ve got the job!” The buzz that comes from hearing those words can’t be denied but, for many of us, that initial euphoria is often replaced with fear.
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Anyone in the investing world has tales to tell of the bear and bull years while mining is synonymous with boom or bust years.
According to research, FIFO workers are significantly more likely to be overweight than other workers. But food is not the only contributing factor.
Gold is one of the most highly-desired and useful metals in the world. Not only can it be beautifully shaped and sculpted, the precious yellow metal conducts electricity and does not tarnish. These qualities make it the metal of choice for the industrial, medical and technology industries, just to name a few.
They are the behemoths of the mining landscape and each year the major players manage to make them bigger, faster, more operationally efficient and even more comfortable.
What seemed like a radical change to our way of working only a few months ago has very quickly become familiar. Social distancing means more people working from home, fewer opportunities for ad hoc team engagement and more chances to feel disengaged from workmates.
How would you describe your organisation’s safety culture? And how important is it to the safety and profitability of your mining operations?
Ever come up with a good idea, told a few people about it but the excitement waned, nothing happened? This has been me on many occasions. The key to getting your plans actioned is articulating value, expressed in dollars.
Current commodity prices and ever-increasing competition between mining operations dictate cost effective, achievable and well-presented mining sequence.
It takes communication to work in a team, and even people working alone have to report to their bosses. If you run a business, you have to tell employees what’s expected of them. Bad communication leads to errors, failure and sometimes lawsuits. Effective communication helps prevent these errors. Here are five reasons why effective communication is important in every business.
Never has the modern world been more volatile than at the current time. Anxiety and uncertainty have rocked industries and businesses, in fact, all communities. But now is probably the perfect time to prepare for a return to a more stable working platform and consider ways to get your team re-engaged and ready for a new phase of productivity.
