Mining Engineering
Mining Operations
Hazard Identification and Risk Management for Mining
Finding mining's hazards before they find you, and managing the ones that can kill.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Contact hours
- 30
- Level
- Intermediate
- Fee from
- On enquiry
Overview
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.
Who should attend
Mine safety and risk practitioners, supervisors and superintendents, engineers responsible for design controls, and managers accountable for safety performance.
What you will be able to do
- 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.
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
Hazards in mining
- Ground failure, mobile equipment, energy and inrush
- Occupational health: dust, noise, heat and chemicals
- Why fatal risk and injury rate are different problems
Day 2
Identification
- Workplace inspection and task observation
- Structured techniques: what if, HAZOP and bowtie
- Learning from incidents and near misses
Day 3
Assessment
- Consequence, likelihood, and the matrix trap
- Qualitative and semi quantitative methods
- Ranking that reflects what can kill
Day 4
Critical controls
- Material unwanted events
- Identifying controls that genuinely stand between hazard and harm
- Performance requirements and verification
Day 5
Running the system
- Registers, reviews and ownership
- Change management and new risk
- Reporting that drives action
What you leave with
- A material unwanted event analysis for one operation.
- Critical control verification routines with named owners.
- A reviewed risk register with the trivia stripped out.
Dates and fees
| Dates | Location | Format | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 to 27 November 2026 | Accra, Ghana | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 30 November 2026 to 4 December 2026 | Durban, South Africa | Classroom | R15,000 |
| 7 to 11 December 2026 | Nairobi, Kenya | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 14 to 18 December 2026 | Live online | Live online | US$995 |
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.