Hi, I\'m Jamie Ross
Welcome to my personal web site. If you are looking to get in touch with me, want to find out what I\'m up to, or you\'re interested in working together, try the page links on the right.
If you\'re interested in my ramblings, check the blog out below!
Cheers, Jamie
Sustainable Future for Our Natural Resources
Australia’s natural resources and mining industries face an uncertain future. A future clouded in the short term by the haze of new taxation regimes, increasing restrictions on new development approvals, and an accelerating pace of growth which other parts of the country and the economy are struggling to match. But also a future shining bright with the promise of longer term demand for our products, technological innovations which will bring news ways of working, and a deeper understanding amongst the Australian people of the value the resources industries bring to the entire country.
Extraction and processing of our natural resources is a non-negotiable part of the way the modern world functions. Government and industry know that resource extraction cannot just stop in its tracks, or even slow down dramatically in any short period of time. It will and must continue for many generations to come.
As a mining engineer myself, it’s my hope that my children and their children alike will still be able to work in the mining and resource industries in Australia in the decades to come
Presentation Against Zero Harm
Here’s a video (in two parts) of a recent keynote presentation I gave at the Mine Manager’s Show in the Hunter Valley, NSW. The presentation is entitled – “In the Quest for Zero Harm, are we Managing What Matters Least?”
My New Business Website is Up!
After a long Saturday afternoon working on the site while it stormed outside and the dogs cowered under my feet, my new website is finally ready! It’s for my new business, Mining Risk Management.
Once I’d got my business name and domain names Read more…
My new toy – Boomer 1030 Tractor
Couple of pics of the new tractor I had delivered yesterday. Already giving it a hard time slashing down six foot high weeds around the block and doing a bit of grading work in the driveway. Still waiting on the cultivator attachment and the correct type of tyres to come in: Read more…
I Might Be Good at the One Thing Everyone Else Hates
It’s often said that people fear public speaking more than they fear death. And hence Jerry Seinfeld’s line about people preferring to be in the coffin at a funeral than delivering the eulogy.
Me? I love public speaking. I’ll take any chance to jump in front of people and present. At work, at sports clubs, in training sessions. Planned or impromptu I don’t mind (in fact I like impromtu the best because I kind of don’t like preparing…). Read more…
