It’s been a few months since we opened our Perth office. Paul Couto shared his experience with moving interstate and setting up the office.

Mine site geotechnical engineering is fraught with uncertainties, with risk management key to driving a balance between safety and production. One of the largest risks to personnel onsite is fall of ground. Whether this includes rock falls, subsidence, minor to major structural failures, all of these falls are rooted in geology.

Mines, like people, are prone to developing behaviours and practices that become routine overtime. The danger is that a mine site used to operating in favourable conditions can become complacent, operating to the expected, rather than the actual, geotechnical environment.