Dismal standard set: Luxford

摘要

A minerals veteran has hammered mining houses which try to push all of the operational risks onto their contractors. Joe Luxford - a member of the Australasian Institute if Mining and Metallurgy's board and the managing director of Trident Project and Mining Services Pty Ltd - said he was dismayed by the "dismal standard" of many contract documents which attempted to make risk a sole responsibility of the dirt movers. "This disturbing trend is common across many of the major mining companies at present in Australia," he told a recent underground mining conference in Western Australia. "While the company lawyers believe they are achieving what their clients desire, more often than not the onerous documents deliver contractual outcomes that benefit no one because they lead to disputation.