#96 – Richard Butcher and Andrew Bywater from Gold Fields

12/16/20 • -1 min

Richard Butcher is the Executive Vice President – Technical at Gold Fields and Andrew Bywater is General Manager at the Granny Smith Gold Mine. In this yarn, we follow on from Richard’s original Modernation episode (#54) and discuss further about where Gold Fields is at on the Modernisation road map. With Granny Smith being used as the major test mine for multiple new technologies, Andrew details what each piece of technology offers and both the opportunities and challenges associated with their implementation. You’ll hear about systems such as Newtrax, Mobilaris and many more.

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#95 – Ross Graham and Bud O’Shannessy

Ross Graham (the “G” in “GBF) and Bud O’Shannessy (the “Mine” in LIVEMINE) come on for this yarn to share their highly impactful and inspirational mental health stories. Both Rosco and Bud have seen their mental health rock bottom and have now come out the other side to help get the conversation happening. We cannot thank both Rosco and Bud enough for opening up about their previous battles and using that as a base to become advocates for Mental Health awareness in the Mining Industry. Please share this episode to anyone you know that might be having a tough time and when you do, make sure you ask them “How’s it going mate?”.

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#97 – Rod Bridge and Dr Peter Waterman from Sideffect

Rod Bridge and Dr Peter Waterman are Directors of Sideffect, an organisation dedicated to saving lives and raising drug awareness.

Rod Bridge founded Sideffect as a result of the tragic death of his son, Preston Bridge in 2013. Preston had an adverse reaction to a synthetic form of LSD at the after party of his school Ball, aged of 16. Preston was given this drug by his friend, who purchased it on the Silk Road (the Dark web) from China for just $1.75.

Following this, Rod completed numerous trips to China, posing as a major drug trafficker in aid of finding out more information regarding the manufacturing and distribution of synthetic drugs. Rod is now an expert of the Drug Industry and dedicates his life to raising drug awareness for todays youth. His objective as he states, is to simply make sure “no one dies”.

Sideffect offers Presentations to Schools, Mine Sites and many other organisations that want to raise awareness of drug use. Book a presentation with Sideffect at https://sideffect.org.au/ (highly recommended).