Working At Boral

I have been working at Boral for a couple of weeks now and have just finished all my inductions. They included generic inductions for the mine in town, the close by George Fisher Mine and an induction for driving vehicles on the lease. The lease is the term used around here for the mine site.

Working at the Boral plant is pretty cool as there is something different happening every day. We deliver concrete to the mine sites, civil engineering jobs and private mum and dad jobs. The mine site has so many contractors on it, it's unbelievable. Xstrata must spend some money!!

The mine site jobs include delivering what they call shotcrete. This is a mix of concrete they use underground to reinforce the tunnels and portal roads they establish. They dig the tunnel, reinforce it with mesh then spray concrete over it. We deliver the concrete for the underground shotcrete guys from the surface via what is called a slickline. There is a big tube that runs from the surface to underground that is 1klm long By the time it reaches their agitator it's doing 350klm/hr. So as you could imagine there us quite a bit of procedure wrapt around getting it down there. Communication is the key, as if I send the concrete down at the wrong time and there is someone under the hose they are dead!!

So the job is quite good, learning heaps about everything there is to know about concrete.