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Dust Management Plans for Australian Mining Compliance A Dust Management Plan is only as useful as what happens on site after it is written. The plans that hold up tend to share the same structure. They start with a site-specific inventory of every dust source: drilling, blasting, excavation and loading, haul roads, crushing and screening, stockpiles and tailings. They apply controls to each source in the right order. The NSW Resources Regulator states that controls must follow the hierarchy of controls (elimination, substitution, engineering, administrative and lastly personal protective equipment) and describes PPE as a last line of defence against exposure. They set up monitoring that shows whether those controls are working, from personal exposure sampling to fixed and real-time monitors. And they are reviewed as the operation changes, rather than filed once and forgotten. Where plans tend to fall short is generic templates that do not reflect the real site, controls written into the plan but not fully resourced, and monitoring that misses the worst conditions. This is where engineering controls at the source come in. GRT: Haul-Loc is designed to help bind fines into the haul road wearing course between passes, GRT: Activate is a wetting agent designed to help sprays at crushers and transfer points wet fine dust that plain water struggles to, and SMART Dosing Units are designed to meter each application and keep a record of it, which helps when a plan needs to show its controls were actually applied. A plan that names its sources, follows the hierarchy and checks its own results is a plan you can stand behind. Read the full article: globalroadtechnology.com/dus… #DustManagement #DustControl #MiningSafety #MiningIndustry #GlobalRoadTechnology

Mining & Construction Erosion Control Compliance & Solutions Every mining operation and construction project that disturbs soil creates an erosion risk. Once vegetation is cleared, topsoil is stripped or batters are cut, the exposed surface can be displaced by raindrop impact, overland flow and wind, and that sediment ends up in drains, sediment basins and waterways. In Queensland, the Environmental Protection Act 1994 says a person must not unlawfully deposit prescribed water contaminants, including earth (sand, soil, silt or mud), in waters, a roadside gutter or stormwater drainage, and Transport and Main Roads specification MRTS52 (March 2025) sets out erosion and sediment control requirements for transport infrastructure projects. In NSW, the Guidelines for erosion and sediment control on building sites (October 2024) state that the most important part of erosion and sediment control is preventing erosion. Many erosion and sediment control programmes lean heavily on capture measures such as silt fences, check dams and sediment basins. They have their place, but they catch sediment after it has already moved, they need regular maintenance, and they can struggle under concentrated flow. Treating the source changes the order of work: stabilise the exposed surface first, so less sediment is mobilised to begin with. GRT: Enviro-Binder is a polymer soil binder sprayed onto exposed surfaces by water truck or hand spray, so large disturbed areas can be treated without installing blankets or matting by hand. It is designed to bind the surface layer and help protect it from raindrop impact and overland flow between rehabilitation campaigns. Treat the source first, and there is less to capture downstream. Read the full article: globalroadtechnology.com/min… #ErosionControl #SedimentControl #MiningIndustry #CivilConstruction #GlobalRoadTechnology

Coal Dust Exposure Limit in QLD and NSW: 1.5 mg/m3 Explained The respirable coal dust exposure limit in Queensland and New South Wales coal mines is 1.5 mg/m3, averaged over an 8-hour shift, set under each state’s mining safety legislation and administered by RSHQ in Queensland and the NSW Resources Regulator. What can catch operations out is that the headline number is not necessarily the number results are judged against. The 1.5 mg/m3 limit assumes an 8-hour shift with time to recover before the next one. On the 12-hour rosters many coal mines run, workers can be exposed to more dust per shift with less recovery time between shifts, so an appropriately qualified person, such as an occupational hygienist, should determine whether the limit needs adjusting. A site sitting just under 1.5 mg/m3 on paper can be over the shift-adjusted figure it is actually assessed against. The limit was lowered to 1.5 mg/m3 in Queensland in 2020 and in New South Wales in 2021. The NSW Resources Regulator notes a recent resurgence in identified cases of coal worker pneumoconiosis, also known as black lung disease. Ventilation and PPE remain essential, but on their own they may not be enough across a full roster. Controlling dust at each source is the most effective place to start: GRT: Activate UG added to the water feeding cutting and bolting sprays helps capture fine coal dust at the face, binding underground roadways helps reduce traffic re-suspending settled dust, GRT: Haul-Loc is designed to help keep wheel-generated fines bound into surface haul roads, and GRT: 12X is designed to help suppress the dust that drilling releases. Each aims to reduce dust in the air rather than only managing a worker’s exposure to it, which matters more on longer rosters, where the effective limit is lower. Read the full article: globalroadtechnology.com/coa… #CoalMining #DustControl #MiningSafety #RespirableDust #GlobalRoadTechnology

Dust Extinction Moisture: Turning “Is This Dusty?” Into A Number “Is this coal too dusty?” is often an argument on site. Dust Extinction Moisture, or DEM, turns it into a number. DEM is the moisture content at which coal effectively stops generating significant dust, measured under Australian Standard AS 4156.6 using a rotating drum test. Below that moisture level, dustiness rises; at or above it, dust drops to a low level. It gives an operation a measured target for how much moisture a specific coal needs to travel, transfer and stockpile with minimal dust and, just as useful, the point beyond which extra water adds little. That second part matters more than it sounds, because above the DEM, extra moisture mostly adds cost: you freight water in every wagon, you lower the as-received calorific value a buyer pays for, and over-wet fines can bridge in bins and blind screens. So the target is not maximum wetness; it is a band at or just above DEM. The hard part is holding a moving product inside a narrow window while weather, blending and transit drying all push it around. Which is why the useful question is not how to add more water, but how to make the water you add count for more. The finest particles are hard to wet and tend to slip past plain water droplets, so some of the water drains or evaporates before it reaches the dust. GRT: Activate is a wetting agent designed to lower water’s surface tension, helping each litre wet more of the fines. It is designed to help treated coal reach dust extinction at lower added moisture than water alone: a similar dust result from less water, or a better result from the same water. Lower product moisture and lower water demand, guided by one number you can actually put in a contract. Read the full article: globalroadtechnology.com/dus… #DustControl #CoalHandling #DustSuppression #MiningEfficiency #GlobalRoadTechnology

Haul Road Dust Suppression: The Complete Guide If you control dust in only one place on a surface mine, it should be the haul roads. They are one of the largest sources of dust on a surface mine, and the reason is physical: a loaded haul truck grinds its wearing course into finer and finer material with every pass, then its wheels and turbulence throw that material back into the air. Unlike a blast or a stockpile, a haul road keeps regenerating its own dust supply. That is why controlling the haul roads makes the biggest difference to a site’s dust profile, and why they are one of the highest-leverage places to act. Uncontrolled haul road dust is not just an environmental line item either. It is a safety risk, because dust clouds behind trucks reduce visibility on roads carrying heavy payloads, and the respirable fraction reaches operators, spotters and maintenance crews. It is a water problem, because plain water on an unsealed road is a short-lived fix, so carts run and rerun the same circuit and consume large volumes. And it is a maintenance problem, because fines lost to the air are road material lost, so dustier roads degrade faster and demand more grading. The fix is not simply more watering. It is an engineered wearing course, a binding suppressant applied through metered dosing of the water cart, and application coordinated with grading, so the treatment lives inside the road rather than sitting on top of it. GRT: Haul-Loc through SMART Dosing Units binds the fines into the wearing course and holds them there between passes, so the road stays bound instead of needing a fresh soak every time a cart comes round. Get the haul roads right, and it makes a real difference to the rest of the site’s dust control. Read the full article: globalroadtechnology.com/hau… #DustSuppression #HaulRoads #MiningSafety #DustControl #GlobalRoadTechnology

Dust Control for Quarries and Aggregate Operations Quarries sit in a tricky spot for dust. They process hard rock, granite, limestone, sandstone, basalt, that is high in crystalline silica, they generate dust at every stage from drilling and blasting to crushing, screening and hauling, and they usually sit much closer to homes, schools and roads than a remote mine. For years, quarry dust was treated as a lower priority than mining. That has changed: the crystalline silica rules now apply across the sector, quarries included, and the respirable crystalline silica exposure limit for quarries is 0.05 mg/m3, the same as the limit that applies to large mines. The regulations do not scale down for a smaller operation. The catch is that many smaller quarries run a couple of haul trucks, one shared water truck, and no dedicated environmental team, so the solutions have to fit that reality. They can. GRT: Haul-Loc dosed through SMART Dosing Units keeps haul road dust down with far less watering, which on a single-truck site frees that truck for other work. GRT7000 stabilisation firms up a wearing course often built from reject material, so it ruts and corrugates less and needs grading less often, freeing the grader for the pit and stockpiles. GRT: Activate goes into the existing spray bars on crushers and screens, designed to be up to 12x more effective than water alone on fine dust, and it moves with a mobile plant when it relocates. GRT: Enviro-Binder veneers stockpiles and exposed boundaries against the wind erosion that drives many community complaints. Quarries are not small mines, but the dust standards are the same, and the solutions can be built to a quarry’s scale. Read the full article: globalroadtechnology.com/dus… #DustControl #Quarrying #SilicaSafety #Aggregates #GlobalRoadTechnology

Dust Suppression Cost Per Kilometre: The Real Question “What does dust suppression cost per litre?” is the question that drives most procurement decisions, and it is the wrong one. Water costs little per litre and is still one of the most expensive methods there is, because of what it takes to deliver it. The product on the supplier’s quote is usually the smallest part of the real cost. The bigger costs sit out of view: the water truck itself, the diesel to run it, the operator who drives it, the grader called out to repair the damage the water does, and the gravel that has to be imported to replace what blew away as dust. On an arid site, plain water evaporates quickly, so the truck returns and re-sprays the same stretch again and again, and that truck time is often one of the largest lines in the whole equation. The better question is the total cost per kilometre, per year, to keep a road dust-free and trafficable, counting every one of those components. Answered that way, the picture changes. GRT: Haul-Loc through SMART Dosing Units keeps dust down with far less watering, so the water truck runs far fewer hours for the same result. GRT7000 stabilisation binds the wearing course so the road holds its shape, needs less grading, and loses less gravel. The litres of product are not where the money is. The water truck hours, the grading and the gravel are, and that is where the saving is too. Read the full article: globalroadtechnology.com/dus… #DustSuppression #HaulRoads #MiningCosts #UnsealedRoads #GlobalRoadTechnology

Reduce Rolling Resistance on Mining Haul Roads Haul roads are one of the largest costs on a surface mine, and the haul fleet is typically the biggest diesel consumer. Research from the University of Queensland identifies rolling resistance, the drag between the tyres and the road, as one of the main controllable factors in how much diesel those trucks burn. On a smooth, hard, well-maintained surface it is low, and almost all the engine’s power moves the truck forward. On a corrugated, loose, rutted or water-damaged surface, the tyres sink and flex, and energy that should move the truck is wasted as heat and deformation, paid for in diesel. What drives it up is familiar: corrugation, a loose wearing course that has lost its fines to dust, moisture damage from heavy watering or poor drainage, weak compaction, and the wrong wearing course material. Several of these trace back to water: the water applied for dust control is often the water that softens and destroys the road, which then needs grading, which smooths it briefly before the cycle repeats. This is where the GRT approach helps on two fronts. GRT7000 polymer stabilisation binds the wearing course into a dense, waterproof surface that resists tyre penetration, corrugation and moisture damage, so the road holds a low, steady rolling resistance for far longer between grading. GRT: Haul-Loc through SMART Dosing Units then maintains dust control with far less water, breaking the wet and dry cycle that drives resistance back up. A road treated this way stays near its best rolling resistance instead of swinging between freshly graded and badly degraded. The road surface is a production lever, not a maintenance item. Read the full article: globalroadtechnology.com/red… #HaulRoads #SoilStabilisation #MiningProductivity #FuelEfficiency #GlobalRoadTechnology

Dust Control During Drilling and Blasting Drilling and blasting start production at every hard rock mine and quarry, and they are among the most concentrated sources of respirable silica on the whole site. The drill bit fractures rock at high energy and compressed air flushes a plume of fine dust out of the hole, and the risk is not theoretical: a 1992 United States NIOSH alert documented silicosis cases, including deaths, among rock drillers. Drill and blast dust is one of the most neglected areas of site dust management, and the reason is that it is really a two-phase problem. During drilling, the standard control is wet drilling, but plain water struggles against the finest particles, which are hard to wet and tend to slip past plain water droplets, so the respirable fraction stays airborne even when the rig looks visually clean. After drilling, the pattern is covered in cuttings piles, one at every hole, with as many as several hundred holes in a single blast, and these piles of fine, dry, freshly fractured material sit exposed to wind and traffic for hours or days while the blast crew works among them loading holes. That second phase is the near-total gap on most sites. GRT addresses both. GRT: 12X is dosed into the drill rig’s water tank so the activated water actually captures the fine dust at the collar instead of letting it slip past, and it is designed to be up to 12x more effective than water alone on the fine fraction. GRT: DC Binder is then sprayed across the finished pattern, forming a surface crust that locks the cuttings down so they do not lift when the crew walks through or the wind picks up, and the blast simply breaks the crust along with the rock. If you control dust on the haul road, at the crusher and on the stockpile, the blast pattern, where the dust starts, should not be the one place you leave uncontrolled. Read the full article: globalroadtechnology.com/dus… #DustControl #SilicaSafety #DrillAndBlast #MiningSafety #GlobalRoadTechnology

Reduce Wet Weather Mine Road Closures Fast When it rains on a mine site, production stops. The haul road network turns impassable, loaded trucks cannot safely run on a saturated, rutted surface, light vehicles bog, the grader crew is called out, and the whole operation waits, sometimes hours, sometimes days, while the road dries and is rebuilt. Most sites accept this as a cost of doing business and budget for a fixed number of wet weather stand-down days every year. The question rarely asked, because the answer used to be no, is whether those days can be prevented. The reason an untreated road fails after rain is simple: it absorbs water. The wearing course is permeable, so rain soaks in, the surface softens and loses bearing capacity, trucks rut it, clay-rich material turns slippery, and if water reaches the base layers the whole pavement has to be rebuilt from the bottom up. If the surface were waterproof, shedding rainfall instead of absorbing it, none of that would happen. That is what GRT7000 polymer stabilisation does: it binds the wearing course into a dense, waterproof layer so rain runs off along the camber into the drains, exactly as it would from a sealed road. The pavement stays dry and firm through the rain, and because water never penetrated, there is no saturated base to dry out and no ruts to grade. An untreated road can take hours, or after a major event days, to inspect, grade, dry and recompact before traffic resumes. A stabilised road is ready far sooner, because the water never penetrated and there is nothing to dry out or regrade. And this matters more each year: CSIRO notes that as the climate changes, extreme weather events are growing in frequency and will bring productivity, safety and environmental challenges for mines, so the number of wet weather events a road has to withstand is set to rise. The wet weather stand-down is not an immovable line in the mine plan. It is an engineering problem with a solution. Read the full article: globalroadtechnology.com/red… #SoilStabilisation #HaulRoads #MiningProductivity #AllWeatherRoads #GlobalRoadTechnology

Conveyor Transfer Point and Crusher Dust Suppression A processing plant is a series of transfers, from the ROM pad to the primary crusher, crusher to conveyor, conveyor to conveyor, through screens and on to the stockpile, and every point where material drops or changes direction throws off a dust plume. The finest respirable fraction, the particles that cause silicosis and other lung disease, is generated at every one of them. The industry has invested heavily in mechanical control: engineered chutes, enclosures, skirt boards and extraction. These are essential and they contain the bulk of the material, but they share one limit, they cannot seal perfectly, and the particles that slip through the gaps are disproportionately the finest and most hazardous ones. That is the gap chemical activation fills. Most plants already run water sprays at the crusher feeds, discharge points and transfer chutes, but plain water struggles against the finest particles are hard to wet and tend to slip past plain water droplets and the turbulent air blows them clear of the spray before contact. GRT: Activate and GRT: 12X are dosed into the existing spray water to change how it behaves, lowering its surface tension so it wets fine dust that plain water struggles to and modifying its charge so droplets attract fine particles rather than relying on chance collision. GRT: 12X is designed to be up to 12x more effective than water alone on the fine fraction. It works through the spray infrastructure already installed, needs no new nozzles or pumps, does not increase water use, and is designed not to affect product quality. Your mechanical controls contain the material and your plain water wets the coarse fraction. The question is what is capturing the respirable fraction that causes disease. Read the full article: globalroadtechnology.com/con… #DustControl #DustSuppression #MineralProcessing #MiningSafety #GlobalRoadTechnology

Independent Study Finds Good Evidence GRT: Activate UG Reduces Dust Most dust suppression claims come from the supplier. This one does not. At a major underground coal operation in Queensland's Bowen Basin, the mine's own occupational hygiene team ran an independent effectiveness study of GRT: Activate UG over ten weeks, using their own methodology, their own sampling and their own statistical analysis. GRT provided the product; the mine's team did the science. The problem they were testing is a real one underground: at the continuous miner face, coal dust is hydrophobic, so the finest respirable dust that causes black lung and silicosis tends to bounce off plain water spray and stay airborne. GRT: Activate UG is a super-activated wetting agent added to the water already feeding the machine's sprays, designed to overcome that barrier so the water actually captures the fine dust. The study used a rigorous on and off protocol across six worker positions around the continuous miner, measuring dust per metre cut to control for production rate. Its conclusion, in the team's own words, was that there is good evidence the product is effective in reducing airborne dust when applied through the head sprays, with a large effect size and a meaningful reduction, and it recommended continued use. It also worked at an ultra-low dilution, and because it goes into the existing spray system, it needs no hardware change and no ventilation change. An independently tested control that makes the water already at the face work harder is the kind of evidence underground operations look for. Read the full article: globalroadtechnology.com/ind… #DustControl #UndergroundMining #CoalMining #MiningSafety #GlobalRoadTechnology

Electric Haul Trucks, Dust Control and Road Quality The haul fleet of the next decade will be electric, autonomous and connected, and every one of those technologies depends on something that was easy to ignore in the diesel era: the quality of the haul road. Diesel trucks tolerate poor roads. They waste fuel and wear tyres, but they keep running. Electric trucks cannot afford that tolerance, for a few reasons. Rolling resistance, which cost a diesel truck fuel, costs an electric truck range, and a battery holds a finite charge with no mid-haul top-up, so a smoother, stabilised surface translates directly into more range per charge. Dust that a diesel engine shrugged off is a threat to battery packs, inverters, charging connectors and high-voltage electronics, where fine mineral dust can cause arcing and degrade cooling, so keeping dust off the road means keeping it out of the fleet's most expensive components. Dynamic charging systems, trolley, rail or in-motion charging, need the truck to hold precise alignment while moving, which a corrugated or rutted surface makes impossible, so those corridors have to be stabilised to a higher standard than a normal haul road. And once the diesel exhaust is gone, road dust becomes the only visible emission left, so a clean, quiet electric fleet trailing dust plumes undercuts the very environmental case the electrification was meant to make. The point is that the road the electric fleet will inherit is the road you build today. GRT7000 stabilisation for a hard, low-resistance surface, and GRT: Haul-Loc through SMART Dosing Units to keep the dust down, pay off now on the diesel fleet and prepare the ground for what comes next. Read the full article: globalroadtechnology.com/ele… #DustControl #SoilStabilisation #HaulRoads #MiningElectrification #GlobalRoadTechnology

How to Set Up a Mine Site Dust Monitoring Programme Most mine sites monitor dust to produce a compliance report that confirms what happened last month. The more useful question is whether the monitoring actually helps you manage what is happening right now. A complete programme works on three tiers. Personal exposure monitoring protects workers, measuring respirable dust and silica in the breathing zone against the workplace exposure standard, using gravimetric samplers and NATA-accredited lab analysis, structured around Similar Exposure Groups, as RS14 (coal mines) and QGL02 (mineral mines and quarries) set out. Boundary monitoring protects the community, measuring PM10 and PM2.5 at the site boundary nearest the closest sensitive receptor, using reference-grade instruments such as TEOM or BAM, and placement is the decision that matters most: a station in the wrong spot can show compliance while a receptor is affected, so it belongs downwind of the sources toward the nearest receptor, with an upwind background station to separate mine dust from bushfire smoke or regional dust. Real-time operational monitoring is the tier most sites skip and the one that closes the loop: lower-cost sensors at haul road junctions, crushers and stockpiles feed the Trigger Action Response Plan, so a rising reading dispatches a water truck to that section before a boundary or exposure limit is ever approached. That is where GRT: Haul-Loc through SMART Dosing Units fits, with the dosing telemetry and the sensor data on one dashboard, showing the dust level, the suppression applied, and the response. The point of monitoring is not to measure the dust. It is to stop it. Read the full article: globalroadtechnology.com/how… #DustControl #DustMonitoring #MiningCompliance #SmartMining #GlobalRoadTechnology

Controlling Dust on Building, Civil and Infrastructure Projects Dust on a construction site is not one problem, it is a different problem at every phase, and the control that works in one phase is the wrong one for the next. During clearing and demolition, the dust comes off exposed ground and material handling, so the answer is binding the surfaces and treating the access roads. Through bulk earthworks, the intensity moves to haul routes and stockpiles, where dosed water carts and stabilised roads do the work. In structural construction, the risk shifts again to concrete cutting, grinding and drilling, the activities that produce the highest respirable silica, where the water at the tool has to be more than plain water to catch the fine fraction. And at rehabilitation, it becomes erosion control on the surfaces you have just reshaped. A dust management plan that only addresses the phase in front of you will be caught out by the next one. GRT products map onto the whole sequence: GRT: Enviro-Binder and GRT: Soil-Loc bind exposed and cleared ground, GRT: Haul-Loc through SMART Dosing Units and GRT7000 handle site roads and internal traffic, GRT: Activate goes into wet-cutting and tool spray water for concrete and stone, and GRT: CC, GRT: Liquid-Floc and GRT: Floc Blocs treat sediment basin water before discharge. The rule that ties it together is timing: put each control in place before the activity that creates the dust, not after someone complains. Plan for every phase, not just the one you are in. Read the full article: globalroadtechnology.com/con… #DustControl #ConstructionSafety #CivilConstruction #SilicaSafety #GlobalRoadTechnology

Real-Time Dust Sensors, IoT and Smarter Dust Control Mining has connected almost everything. Haul trucks, drills and processing plants run on sensors, data and control rooms that show operations in real time. Dust control is often the exception. On many sites it still works the way it did in the 1990s: a water truck follows a fixed route on a fixed schedule, spraying water that evaporates within the hour, with no feedback on whether it was needed or whether it worked, and the monitoring report arrives weeks later, after the fact. Smart dust control closes that gap, and it has four layers. Sensing: low-cost IoT particulate sensors placed across the haul roads, crusher, stockpiles and boundary show where dust is rising, minute by minute, rather than one boundary reading averaged over an hour. Intelligence: combined with wind and weather data, the readings become a prediction, so suppression can start before a wind change arrives rather than after the boundary monitor detects the result. Decision and response: this is where GRT: SMART Dosing Units come in. Installed at the standpipe or on the water truck, they meter the specified concentration of GRT: Haul-Loc or GRT: Activate into every fill, the same dose whatever the shift or the operator, and send the data back over 5G, satellite or radio: water used, product dosed, concentration, time and location. That telemetry is the auditable record a regulator asks for when they want to know exactly what dust controls were running on a given night. You do not have to build all four layers at once. Start with the response layer, add sensors, then add prediction. Each step stands on its own, and together they move dust control from a fixed schedule to something that responds to real conditions. Read the full article: globalroadtechnology.com/rea… #DustControl #SmartMining #MiningTechnology #SMARTDosing #GlobalRoadTechnology

Dust Suppression for Construction Sites & Civil Works A construction site generates dust from the first excavator to the final sealed surface: clearing, earthworks, concrete cutting, haulage and wind erosion of cleared ground all put respirable particulate into the air. What has changed is the regulation around it. Since September 2024, Chapter 8A of the WHS Regulations has applied to every activity that cuts, drills, grinds or disturbs material containing crystalline silica, which covers concrete, brick, stone, mortar and most soil and rock. The Safe Work Australia Model Code of Practice is explicit that basic water spraying, a worker with a garden hose, is not sufficient for silica-generating work: control has to be engineered, integrated and verifiable. And from December 2026, the move from a Workplace Exposure Standard to an enforceable Workplace Exposure Limit turns the airborne silica limit into a hard ceiling, set nationally by Safe Work Australia at 0.05 mg/m3, with WorkSafe Victoria recommending a stricter 0.02 mg/m3. This matters more on construction sites than almost anywhere, because they sit metres from homes, schools and footpaths, and a visible dust plume brings complaints and stop-work orders fast. The engineering controls exist and map onto each phase: GRT: Haul-Loc through SMART Dosing Units and GRT7000 for site roads and internal traffic, GRT: Enviro-Binder and GRT: Soil-Loc for exposed surfaces and erosion, GRT: Activate in wet-cutting and tool spray water for concrete, masonry and stone, and GRT: CC, GRT: Liquid-Floc and GRT: Floc Blocs for sediment basin treatment, with SMART Dosing telemetry providing the records an inspector will ask for. The garden hose era is over. Engineering is the standard. Read the full article: globalroadtechnology.com/dus… #DustControl #ConstructionSafety #SilicaSafety #WHS #DustSuppression #GlobalRoadTechnology

The Hidden Cost of Dust on a Mine Site Ask most operations what dust costs them and the answer is the water bill. But water is only the visible part. On an unsealed haul road, dust quietly drains the operation in ways that never appear on a line marked "dust control". It wears haul truck tyres faster on corrugated, dried-out surfaces. It cuts visibility, which slows the fleet and eats into production. It forces graders and water trucks onto the road again and again, each pass burning fuel and operator hours. It settles on everything downwind, from equipment to neighbouring properties, and it carries a real health risk for the people working in it. Add the compliance pressure at the boundary, and the true cost of dust runs well past the cost of the water used to chase it. The point is not to spend more on water. It is to treat the surface so it stops making dust in the first place. GRT: Haul-Loc, dosed through SMART Dosing Units into the water trucks already on site, binds the wearing course so each pass holds dust for far longer, which means fewer passes, less water, and a road that works with the operation rather than against it. The cheapest dust to deal with is the dust you never raise. Talk to our team: [email protected] #DustSuppression #DustControl #HaulRoads #MiningOperations #GlobalRoadTechnology

Soil Binding Solutions: How They Work Every exposed surface on a mine or construction site is losing soil. In dry conditions the wind takes it as dust, and in wet conditions the rain takes it as sediment. A soil binding solution stops both. It is a liquid polymer, diluted with water and sprayed onto the ground, that penetrates the surface and bonds loose particles into a durable, erosion-resistant crust. Unlike plain water, which wets the surface and evaporates within minutes, a binder changes the structure of the surface itself, locking fine particles into heavier aggregates that resist wind, raindrop impact and overland flow. The crust stays semi-permeable, so rainfall infiltrates rather than sheeting off, and the surface can still support seed germination and revegetation. The matrix is flexible rather than brittle, so it moves with wetting and drying cycles instead of cracking like a rigid cementitious treatment. Compared with physical controls such as erosion blankets and silt fences, a sprayed binder makes full contact with every crack and depression rather than leaving gaps for water to exploit, it is applied from the road with the water truck already on site rather than by workers on the slope face, and there is no physical product that can be undermined or washed away. GRT: Enviro-Binder handles slopes, batters, embankments and rehabilitation areas where rainfall erosion resistance and revegetation matter, while GRT: Soil-Loc covers broadscale wind erosion suppression across large flat surfaces. Bind the surface within a day of exposure, before the first wind or the first storm takes it. Read the full article: globalroadtechnology.com/soi… #ErosionControl #SoilStabilisation #DustControl #MineRehabilitation #CivilConstruction #GlobalRoadTechnology

Don't just take our word for it. Take theirs. The best measure of our work is what our customers say about it. Across their feedback, the same things come through: dust and erosion problems solved, timely and helpful support from Toby and the team, and a genuine commitment to stay with a project until the result is right. These are real words from real GRT customers, on real sites across Australia. If dust or erosion is costing you time, budget or regulatory headaches, this is the kind of outcome we work towards on every job. Contact us: [email protected] #DustSuppression #DustControl #ErosionControl #SoilStabilisation #GlobalRoadTechnology