Hazard Identification and Risk Management for Mining

Mining risk management fails in two directions: registers listing hundreds of trivial hazards while the fatal few go unmanaged, and controls that exist on paper with nobody verifying them. This week teaches identification techniques that surface the serious hazards, assessment that separates catastrophic from frequent, and the critical control thinking that has moved the industry's fatality rate where it has moved at all.

It runs 5 times over the published calendar, in 3 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Apply structured identification techniques to mining operations.
• Assess risk by consequence as well as likelihood.
• Identify material unwanted events and their critical controls.
• Verify that a control is present and effective rather than assumed.
• Keep a register that is used rather than filed.

Mine safety and risk practitioners, supervisors and superintendents, engineers responsible for design controls, and managers accountable for safety performance.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A material unwanted event analysis for one operation.
• Critical control verification routines with named owners.
• A reviewed risk register with the trivia stripped out.

A GATI certificate recording what you 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, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.