State of Practice of Risk Assessment for Tailings Dams – Part 1

Are you effectively identifying, assessing, evaluating, communicating, and managing your risk? Increase your understanding of risk assessment objectives and approaches in the context of tailings dams. Review common definitions, tools in the toolbox, and established and developing techniques with respect to integrating risk assessment into your risk management framework. This course will contain interactive workshop discussions and presentations from industry specialists and practitioners.

The main goals of this workshop are as such:

  • Provide awareness of different risk assessment approaches (guidance and overview of the practice)
  • Provide a forum to explore what risk assessment is and is not
  • Explore what constitutes a good risk assessment

Part 1: Introduction

  • Workshop opening, safety share
  • Purpose of workshop, agenda review

Part 2: Risk assessment overview

  • What are objectives of risk assessment?
  • Risk assessment in the context of embankment dams lessons learned from mature
  • Definitions of key terms and identification

Part 3: What is reasonably practicable

  • Legal background of risk management and the reasonably practicable argument
  • What can be argued to be reasonably practicable
  • Moderated round table discussions

Part 4: Lessons learned and industry perspectives

  • Examples of risk assessment and management in the mining industry

Part 5: Quantification of Risk

  • Risk quantification background and techniques
  • Moderated round table discussions on risks and benefits of risk quantification
  • Integration of risk assessment outcomes in Tailings Management System 

Part 6: Workshop closeout

  • Current Initiatives in risk assessment and workshop closeout

Organizing committee and presenters

  • Andy Small
  • Jiri Herza
  • Colleen Crystal
  • Greg Smith
  • David Jensen
  • Jarrad Coffey
  • Chad LePoudre
  • Christina Winkler
  • Tamara Johndrow
  • Jorge Macedo

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SRK Moderator, Presenter and Organizing Committee Member