Mine Safety Management & Governance Systems Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• Define safety accountabilities from the board and general manager to the shift supervisor.
• Analyze why major mining incidents reflect failures of governance as well as failures of controls.
• Apply ISO 45001 to the management system of a surface or underground mine.
• Establish a principal hazard management process with named owners and review points.
• Apply critical control management and bowtie analysis as management decision tools.
• Design verification routines showing whether critical controls are in place and effective.
• Build contractor safety assurance into procurement, contracts, and site oversight.
• Select leading and lagging indicators that give boards an honest picture of risk.
• Govern incident investigation so that findings produce lasting corrective action.
• Oversee emergency preparedness arrangements as a management responsibility.
• Structure a constructive working relationship with mine inspectorates and regulators.
• Assess how production targets and incentive schemes influence safety decisions at every management level.
• Use assurance findings to set priorities and improve the safety management system over time.

Who Should Attend

Learning Outcomes

• By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
• Assign clear safety accountabilities across all management levels.
• Assess a mine safety management system against ISO 45001.
• Build a principal hazard register with named owners.
• Use bowtie analysis to support management decisions on principal hazards.
• Select critical controls and plan how they will be verified.
• Set contractor safety assurance requirements in contracts.
• Identify production pressures that weaken safety decisions and address them at management level.
• Design a safety report that gives the board an honest picture.
• Govern incident investigations and track corrective actions.
• Oversee emergency preparedness as a management responsibility.
• Work constructively with mine inspectorates on inspections and improvement plans.
• Build a safety governance improvement plan for their organization, with owners, priorities, and review points.

Course Outline