Mining Engineering
Mining Law and Environment
Behavioural Safety in Mining
Why trained people take shortcuts underground, and what actually changes it.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Contact hours
- 30
- Level
- Intermediate
- Fee from
- US$1,500
Overview
Most mining incidents involve somebody doing something they knew they should not, and blaming them stops the investigation exactly where it gets interesting. This week looks at why the shortcut made sense at the time: production pressure, normalisation, supervision that rewards speed, and procedures written for a different face. Observation and intervention programmes are covered honestly, including how they decay into a tick box exercise and what keeps them from it.
Who should attend
Safety practitioners and advisors, supervisors and shift bosses, mine managers, and employee representatives involved in safety programmes.
What you will be able to do
- Explain why violations are usually rational to the person committing them.
- Distinguish error from violation, and respond to each correctly.
- Run an observation and feedback conversation that changes something.
- Design an intervention programme that survives its first year.
- Measure behaviour without producing numbers people manage to.
How it is taught
Short input, then work, across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each. Exercises run on situations delegates bring rather than on a case study written for a different organisation. Cohorts are capped so that everybody is asked something.
Available as classroom, live online, in house.
Programme outline
Day 1
Why people take risks
- Error, violation, and the difference it makes
- Normalisation of deviance
- Production pressure and the real reward system
Day 2
Culture
- What safety culture means operationally
- Reporting, and what suppresses it
- Just culture, and the line between error and recklessness
Day 3
Observation
- Observing a task without policing it
- Feedback that is accepted
- Coaching supervisors to do it
Day 4
Leadership
- What visible leadership actually looks like underground
- Consistency between message and decision
- Handling the conflict between tonnes and time
Day 5
Sustaining it
- Programme fatigue and tick boxes
- Metrics that resist gaming
- Refreshing without restarting
What you leave with
- An observation protocol fit for your own workplaces.
- A supervisor conversation guide.
- A measurement set that resists gaming.
Dates and fees
| Dates | Location | Format | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 to 27 November 2026 | Nairobi, Kenya | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 30 November 2026 to 4 December 2026 | Accra, Ghana | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 7 to 11 December 2026 | Kampala, Uganda | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 14 to 18 December 2026 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Classroom | US$1,500 |
Fees are per delegate and cover tuition, all programme materials and the certificate. Travel, accommodation and visas are arranged by the delegate. Registration closes two weeks before a programme starts.
Certificate
A GATI certificate recording what was attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended. Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record.
It records participation. and GATI does not claim one it does not hold.