Risk Evaluation For Tailings Engineering

Program Overview

This micro-credential, designed for tailings management professionals, provides knowledge on determining safe designs for tailings storage facilities through topics like the Factor of Safety approach and risk evaluations. It is part of a series of micro-credentials that can lead to a Graduate Certificate in Tailings Management at UWA. The program includes online learning materials and discussion forums, catering to practicing engineers, geoscientists, and individuals involved in tailings risk assessments.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This micro-credential has been designed for professionals working in the field of tailings management. It is best suited to practicing engineers, geoscientists or individuals with responsibility for input into risk assessments of tailings storage facilities, although the content covered and the principles discussed will find relevance in all fields of mining geomechanics.

Objectives:

Participants will learn about determining what constitutes a safe design, through topics that include the Factor of Safety approach, probabilistic approaches and risk as an acceptable criterion. Topics will include uncertainty and variability, safety risk acceptance levels and the use of safety matrices, and the concepts of ALARP and frequency-consequence evaluations.

Program Description:

This micro-credential is part of a series of 12 micro-credentials which, if successfully completed, will lead to a Graduate Certificate in Tailings Management at UWA.

• In order to apply for the Graduate Certificate award you must have a Bachelor of Engineering degree or a degree in a related field and have met UWA’s English language competency requirements.
Please refer to the Graduate Certificate in Tailings Management.

Teaching:

Delivery mode Online access to learning material, on demand. Two online discussion forums will be held for students to discuss the learning material and share their own insights into the topics covered.

Other:

Future Tails is a five-year initiative funded by sponsors Rio Tinto and BHP to facilitate industry understanding of best practice mine tailings management. As a result of the recent Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM), there is increasing demand for tailings professionals at the same time as the industry is experiencing a shortage of personnel with appropriate training. The GISTM will bring rapid change to the way the industry manages tailings and waste. This micro-credential and the subsequent micro-credentials will allow you to keep up with standards, technologies and guidelines dealing with tailings management. This micro-credential is one of a series of twelve micro-credentials that are stackable towards the Graduate Certificate in Tailings Management . The next micro-credential in this series is MINEM532: Monitoring. The Calendar of micro-credentials can be found here

• In order to apply for the Graduate Certificate award you must have a Bachelor of Engineering degree or a degree in a related field and have met UWA's English language competency requirements.
Please refer to the Graduate Certificate in Tailings Management.