We’re pleased to be joining forces with Aussie workwear company TradeMutt at Longwall 2019. Commit Works and TradeMutt will be exhibiting together at the conference, held at Crowne Plaza Hunter Valley, on Wednesday 30 and Thursday 31 October.
Commit Works’ General Manager Asia Pacific Terry Henrikson and our Site Operations Engineer Rick Pestoor will be attending alongside TradeMutt co-founder Dan Allen.
We’ve chosen to team up with TradeMutt at the conference because we believe the work they’re doing in our industry is vitally important. Like TradeMutt, Commit Works is a company dedicated to improving the safety of workers.
TradeMutt is a workwear brand that aims to start conversations around the rate of suicide in Australia, particularly in young men. Its bright shirts are designed to break down barriers, start conversations and build camaraderie around the issue of mental health.
After losing a friend to suicide in 2015, Dan Allen founded TradeMutt with his apprentice at the time, Ed Ross, describing it as “a brand by tradies for tradies designed to make an invisible issue impossible to ignore, and positively change the outlook of the mental health space in Australia forever”. We congratulate Dan on his work and look forward to sharing our exhibition space with him this week.
Longwall is Australia’s only event specifically tailored for the nation’s elite underground coal mining operators. Building upon 2018’s focus on automation and technological advancement, Longwall 2019 will delve deeper into the human element behind the technology. This year’s conference will share insights on operator health and safety, rescue teams and the ongoing industry-wide safety narrative, alongside operator success stories, production milestone updates, mechanical innovations and technical case studies.
