GroundProbe Senior Manager – Quality & Continuous Improvement, Neil Cordon I am sharing my thoughts on the fundamental principles for creating and maintaining a successful Continuous Improvement (CI) strategy. The following tips are based on my work experience at GroundProbe and 12 years as a ‘lean’ practitioner. Some have come from personal hard-learned lessons, […]
READ MOREProviding the support needed to ‘mine-to-plan without harming anyone’
GroundProbe Chief Commercial Officer & VP Americas, Ben Moke A little over two decades ago, a group of PhD students and their professor from the University of Queensland set out to make mining safer. By developing the slope stability radar (SSR), they, and many other innovative thinkers who have since joined them, have succeeded in […]
READ MOREFriction – Excerpt – ‘ESG and sustainability: On whose watch?’
Originally written by Neil Cordon, Senior Manager – Quality and Continuous Improvement, GroundProbe and published in Friction Sustainability is the word on everyone’s lips today and for good reason: The effects of climate change have accelerated faster than even the experts had predicted; faster than evolution can keep up with. Full circularity is the goal, but it […]
READ MOREBuilding Change Resilience: Creating a Positioning Statement
GroundProbe Project and Change Manager, Trish Ladd This is the first in a short series of articles about Building Change Resilience. Each article is stand-alone and can also be read consecutively for the overarching view of our journey to change resilience. This calendar year has seen more growth for GroundProbe and a focus on […]
READ MOREInspiring Creative Young Scientists in Regional Queensland
GroundProbe, Orica, and Wonder of Science (WoS) have again united to promote STEM education in regional Queensland, Australia. Recently, I had the opportunity to attend a WoS regional conference in Emerald and witness the enthusiasm of young scientists, leaving me inspired by the impact of this partnership. What is WoS and its focus? Wonder of […]
READ MOREReflecting on Brave Women
GroundProbe SAAS Implementation Manager, Bianca Jongbloed Reflecting on Brave Women Last week marked the anniversary of Julia Gillard’s iconic speech addressing misogyny. On October 9, 2012, Julia Gillard bravely confronted the sexism and misogyny she endured as Australia’s prime minister, echoing the experiences of countless women in their daily lives and professional paths. It […]
READ MORESafety, Sustainability and Social License – The 3 S’s in Mining
GroundProbe CEO, David Noon GroundProbe is a technology leader specialising in sensors and software for measuring and monitoring geohazards. While technology innovation is what we do, more importantly, the output of our efforts contributes towards mining’s 3 S’s: Safety, Sustainability, and Social License. Safety “Making Mining Safer” has been GroundProbe’s catchcry and vision statement since […]
READ MOREGroundProbe Goes Solar
Achieving sustainability and improved environmental practices in our everyday roles has become a key initiative at GroundProbe. We are constantly on the lookout for ways to efficiently use natural resources to minimise our environmental footprint as well as ways to make our technology ‘greener’ and more sustainable. We are proud to announce recent completion of […]
READ MOREEmbedding Sustainability and Resilience into GroundProbe’s Supply Chain
GroundProbe’s Head of Supply Chain & Quality Systems, Neil Cordon At GroundProbe, we are driven to ensure our equipment is manufactured and shipped to be available for safety urgent situations at short notice. Our goal is to provide our customers with decision confidence at the most critical operational moments, as well as on a routine […]
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