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Hatch provides consulting, design, engineering,
technology, environmental services, operational
services, and project and construction
management to the global mining, metallurgical,
energy and infrastructure sectors from 65 offices
around the world.
For over 50 years, we have been developing
and delivering safe and quality projects that are
helping our clients build better businesses on
every industrial continent.
www.hatch.com.au
Together
We Engineer Success
Art exhibitions are an opportunity to showcase leading
aboriginal artists from particular regions, especially the Pilbara,
displaying collections of paintings, textiles and artefacts. Each
artist is recognised and their life experiences are explored so
a range of ancestral stories significant to the region and its
diverse people can be displayed. Support of these events allows
the local community to celebrate the talent in the region and
showcase it on a larger scale.
Large community events like the City to Surf, supported by
the resources industry, are gaining popularity as more people
embrace a more active lifestyle. Additionally, sport continues
to be a successful tool in encouraging children to stay in school
and transition into higher learning or apprenticeships.
Many CMEmembers support initiatives that use the incentive
of playing Australian Rules Football to provide mentors and
tuition to encourage aboriginal students to achieve in school.
Rehabilitation efforts can take on a wide variety of forms and
in some cases lead to ongoing commercial ventures. Companies,
working with local communities, have now been able to convert
sites to recreational lakes or in one case, an aquaculture farm.
This ground-breaking environmental initiative has linked large-
scale mine rehabilitation with aboriginal education and training
to create a feasible, sustainable and vibrant new centre for
marron and silver perch farming in Collie.
The resources industry values strong, trusting and mutually
respectful relationshipswith aboriginal communities. There is an
emphasis on building these relationships through employment
and training, environmental and cultural awareness and the
preservation of country.
In recent years many companies have recognised
employment of aboriginal people is not as simple as providing
jobs, or even the training for such jobs. For employment of
aboriginal people to be sustainable and commercially viable,
they must be able to perform their work with competence and
confidence at the same level as the rest of the workforce.
History has shown employment will fail if the aboriginal
employees are not prepared for, or adequately supported in,
their work place. In practice this recognition has translated in
a new wave of work-readiness and associated pre-employment
programs. Work-readiness programs are designed to prepare
aboriginal people for prospective employment. These programs
are intended to help local aboriginal community members
to become confident in their ability to join the workforce and
commit to its rigorous demands.
Supporting and strengthening the communities in which
we operate has a positive impact and generates outcomes
that have a long-term benefit. Building on great foundations,
the liveability of Western Australia will be enhanced by
ensuring we have vibrant communities, a vital economy and a
sustainable industry.
We hope the people of Western Australia consider the
resources sector to be an integral part of their community.
Without their support our sector would simply not exist.
Supporting and
strengthening the
communities in
which we operate
has a positive impact
and generates
outcomes that have
a long-term benefit.