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MyPass tells the stories of workers from across the resources industry. Learn from and relate to the experiences they’ve had in their careers.
February 13th, 2020
MINING Residential: Many mines in remote areas have a traditional company town, or support towns that used to be company towns. Such locations include Leinster and Newman in Western Australia and Mount Isa in Queensland. Such locations can often be termed ‘closed towns’ and not then typically open to the general public moving there […]
July 9th, 2019
Brett Jenkins, author of “A Boy Miner”, decided to capture his experiences in FIFO as a young man nearly twenty years ago. His book explores the trials of negotiating the meaning of masculinity, of mateship, and the effects that absence and isolation can have on FIFO workers and their families.
June 5th, 2019
Michelle Love, a New Zealand based Health & Safety Advisor, first came across MyPass in 2016 when working a shutdown for Methanex. She hadn’t heard of it before and began exploring the platform, realising its potential to make her work life easier. Michelle’s career in the resources industry began thirteen years ago, when she returned […]
May 27th, 2019
Automation technology is becoming increasingly crucial to the Australian resources industry. As more companies invest in this technology for the future, concern amongst workers for the security of their jobs is rising. This uncertainty of what the future of work will look like left us asking the question: will robots really take our jobs in […]
April 9th, 2019
Harry Morton Mining news in 2019 has been filled with examples of mining gone wrong in Asian countries. The Meghayala Indian mine collapse back in December 2018, or more recently the Sulawesi collapse in Indonesia that killed over fifty workers. These incidents fill our minds with images of poor working conditions and set-ups that would […]
March 28th, 2019
Harry Morton In 1974, nine-year old Joao Cardosa left with his family from their island home of Madeira in Portugal, bound for a much larger island, Australia. Famous as the birthplace of football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, Madeira was very different to their new home in Perth. Fast forward forty-five years & Joao, known by friends […]
March 28th, 2019
Harry Morton 28/3/19 The current resources and mining industry poses many different challenges to workers. For those who are new to the industry, they may have never experienced ‘the good old days’ like others have. We often want to know, who was there during that time? How did people make a start in the industry […]
February 21st, 2019
By Harry Morton It’s 1985 in Useless Loop, Western Australia. You’re working a six-month FIFO job doing 12-hour shifts with no rostered days off. Your room is a little box with an old bone rattler air conditioner in the corner, no fridge and only the communal toilet block to do your business in. The site […]
