Biodiversity Action Plans / Management Plans - MPA Guidance for Members

Driver's Handbook

The comprehensive ‘Driver’s Handbook’ has been developed by members as a tool for drivers to help them understand and manage the risks that they face and can create when driving and operating vehicles for work. It is hoped that it will help them make safer choices about the way they drive and behave around vehicles.

Company Car & Van Handbook

This handbook has been jointly developed by the members of the MPA, Transport Committee and Health and Safety Committee, as a tool for drivers of cars and vans to help them understand and manage the risks that they face and create when driving and operating vehicles for work. It will help people make safer choices about the way they drive and behave around vehicles.

Guide to Energy Isolation and LOTOTO (Lock-out - Tag-out - Try-out)

This document has been prepared by the MPA and Reece Safety to Share Best Practice and to raise awareness of the subject 'LOTOTO' to help guide the industry to a safer working environment. In this document you will also find also find product information to safe guard the workforce.

Profile of the UK Mineral Products Industry - 2018 Edition

UK Minerals Strategy - 2018 Edition

The UK Minerals Strategy, prepared on behalf of the mineral products industry by the CBI Minerals Group and MPA, highlights that UK demand for minerals and mineral products over the next 25 years will be at least 5 billion tonnes, most of which needs to be sourced from within the UK.

Charter and Members' Handbook 2019

MPA has developed a new Charter for its producer members, founded on a new vision for 2025. The Charter will be the vehicle for achieving the new vision by 'Driving Change, Raising Standards and Improving Perceptions'.

Ready-Mixed Concrete – Practical guide for site personnel

AMPS 2017 - 6th Annual Mineral Planning Survey Report

Good Practice Guidance - Extraction by Dredging of Aggregates from England's Seabed

Water Strategy

Safer by Design - Bridge Saw Guarding

Long-term aggregates demand & supply scenarios, 2016-30

MPA has set out long- term aggregate demand and supply trends at a national (GB) level for the next 15 years, based on a scenario analysis. It aims to provide industry and industry stakeholders with indications of the volumes of aggregates that may be needed to satisfy future demand, reflecting the UK's needs for construction, including housebuilding and infrastructure.

Proposed UK Minerals Strategy

Supplying Demand for the Next Generation

Mineral Products Industry at a Glance - 2016 Edition

The UK Mineral Extraction Industry Report

The UK Mineral Extraction Industry Report prepared by MPA on behalf of the CBI Minerals Group shows how critical the UK mineral extraction industry, particularly the non-energy sector, is to the economy.

Dimension Stone - An essential UK Industry

The MPA Restoration Guarantee Fund...An Industry Pledge

MPA/Planning Officers’ Society Practice Guidance on the Production and Use of Local Aggregates Assessments

This updated (May 2017) guidance has been prepared jointly by the Planning Officers’ Society Minerals & Waste Forum with the Mineral Products Association. Its purpose is to provide advice on how to prepare a Local Aggregate Assessment (LAA) and on their use, based on recent practice. It is principally intended for Mineral Planning Authorities, to assist them in their preparation of LAAs, but also for Aggregate Working Parties in their role as consultees on LAAs.  It will also be useful to MPA members in considering and commenting LAAs including at Aggregate Working Parties.

Mineral Sites and Bird Strike Hazard and Risk:  Practice Guide for Mineral Development and Restoration within Aerodrome Safeguarding Areas

This Guide was developed by the MPA’s Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Group following a workshop it held in late 2013. The Guide aims to build on existing guidance and considers how minerals can be worked and sites restored to deliver biodiversity gains within aerodrome safeguarding areas while reducing and managing bird strike hazard  and risk  to levels acceptable to aerodrome operators and mineral planning authorities.

The case studies below illustrate aspects of good practice in delivery of biodiversity while mitigating birdstrike risk.  Further case studies are being developed and will be added in due course.

Case Study 1 - Gill Mill
Case Study 2 - Attenborough
Case Study 3 - East Leake Quarry
Case Study 4 - Tattershall

Potential Communications Techniques

The range of communication activities within the scope of the minerals industry and the minerals planning authorities and the number of stakeholders are large but are summarised here in Table 1. Table 2 provides an example of a structured approach to defining a communications strategy that could be adapted for use.