Summary
Off-site road transportation (access roads) to mining operations (public, private or semi-private) poses a series of unique challenges to people in charge of their Safety, Security and Hazard Management.
This course draws information from a number of real-life studies performed on this type of road by the authors, and presents them following the logic of a Safety, Security and Hazard Management Report that could be prepared for a road that crosses a variety of terrains and is subjected to a wide array of hazards, considering, of course, a variety of climatic zones. The course is divided into steps, which correspond to those steps necessary to complete a Safety, Security and Hazard Management Report.
At the end of the course, the course proposes a catalogue of mitigations that can be integrated in order to enhance Safety, Security and Hazard Management along any mining road. These include both physical mitigations on the road/infrastructure, and personnel mitigations, including a review of driver's fatigue, etc. Technical Appendices deliver specific information that will help Road Managers to design specific signals and signage.
This course makes references to prior Edumine courses by F. Oboni and C. Oboni whenever necessary but doesn't require the knowledge of them and does not repeat any information contained in the courses on risk assessment, risk, or management.
Pre-Course e-Learning
Prior to the course, registered delegates have access to the online e-learning material consisting of an introductory course titled Hazards, Safety and Security Management of Mining Transportation on Off-Site Roads.
Certificate in Mining Studies
This course qualifies for one day of short course credit for the Certificate in Mining Studies (CMS), a continuing education program of accredited short courses, webcasts and online courses for lifelong learning in mining, supported by University of British Columbia and University of Arizona. more details »
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
This course meets the requirements for formal CPD activity for most Canadian provincial associations and US state boards and may contribute the equivalent in hours towards your CPD requirement. more details »
Who Should Attend?
Mining personnel responsible for access road (private/semi-private/public) Safety, Security, and related Hazards Management. Management in charge of buses, shuttles, subcontractors' traffic, and transportation by road to and from the mine, including transport of chemicals, machinery, over-sized freight, products (for example cathodes, concentrate), etc. Mining personnel in charge of ERM wanting to broaden their views to road/traffic hazards and risks.
Franco Oboni Dr. Oboni is the Principal Engineer and President of Oboni and Associates, based in Morrens, Switzerland and Vancouver, Canada. He has conducted a broad range of engineering projects, risk audits and geo-environmental hazard mitigation studies as well as planning and management of a wide variety of multi-disciplinary studies. These projects include short term missions on five continents, definition of needs studies, negotiations with community leaders, as well as the preparation of monitoring programs, cyclic risk reassessment and updating of probabilistic analyses after unusual events.
With his strong practical and applied engineering/contracting background, coupled with long term research development and continuous scientific updating, Dr. Oboni has been involved in risk and hazard analyses for a number of large facilities and organizations, including large linear facilities (railroads, highways, pipelines) and large hydropower projects. Dr. Oboni has supported numerous studies involving the use of innovative mitigative designs and construction techniques, and has provided alternatives evaluation, including financial life-cycle analysis for solid and liquid waste facilities throughout the world.
Dr. Oboni has led multinational groups in the accomplishment of extremely complicated tasks in a timely and effective manner. Assignments include numerous expert missions in Europe and overseas (Cameroon, Chad, Canada, Gabon, Madagascar, Chile, Philippines, Oman, Algeria), including on-site consultation, forensic, expert witness and troubleshooting.
The author of over 30 publications presented in international journals, Dr. Oboni has also lectured for numerous universities, laboratories and organizations in Asia, North America and Europe. He is also the author of a fiction book, entitled "The Omani Link".
Cesar Oboni Cesar has been applications developer and project team member, and is currently director of modelling for a broad range of risk and crisis mitigation projects, risk and security audits and geo-environmental hazard mitigation studies. Projects include a wide selection of applications in the international arena.
Cesar offers an exceptional combination of technical expertise and algorithm design capabilities, which are intermingled with his deep understanding of cross-cultural environments matured over three continents (Europe, North America and Japan).
Since the inception of his career, Cesar has been involved in risk and hazard analyses for a number of large facilities and organizations, including communities, military, food and non-food industries, large linear facilities (railroads, highways, pipelines, tunnels, power lines). A major endeavor has been a study on 50 years history of typhoons in Japan with a quantitative discussion of the Japanese Government Mitigative Policies in relation to risk societal acceptability and WTP (willingness to pay) concepts.
Lately Cesar has been involved in projects dealing with information warfare for heavy natural resources industry, and developing synthetic environments for training of key personnel. His work has lead to a first in the world: a country-wide risk map for unexploded remnants of war (UXO) in Lao PDR and a risk model for UXO contaminated communities which greatly improves the tasking prioritization and allows better allotment of funds in mined countries.
Provisional Schedule
This webcast is divided into two sessions with following topics:
| Duration |
Session |
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Introduction |
| 75 min |
Step 1: Preliminary Data Gathering
- General history of accidents on the road/in the region/country
- Expected mining traffic vs. general traffic
- Review of accident related available documents
- Road description and black-spots
|
| 105 min |
Step 2: Generic Preliminary Inspection/Review of the Road
- Safety audit (for projects)
- Safety review (for existing roads)
- Road safety impact assessment (looks at all adjacent infrastructures)
- Accident analysis
|
| Duration |
Session |
| 45 min |
Step 3: Specific Aspects Linked to Mining Roads
- Security/criminality/sabotage/activists/fundamentalists/terrorism/landmines
- Special vehicles/oversized/construction equipment/hazardous matters/hydrocarbons
- Subcontractors/minivans
- Management "personal" vehicles
- Buses: mine's personnel shuttles/other buses
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| 90 min |
Step 4: Hazard Identification Primer (a guide to where to look/what to seek)
- Natural hazards
- Human related hazards (error, fatigue, cell phones, etc.)
- Fauna related hazards
- Technical hazards related to traffic/vehicles
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| 45 min |
Step 5: Possible Mitigations (examples for various hazardous situations, aspects etc.)
- Physical mitigations
- Awareness, medical (including extreme conditions, altitude etc.), fatigue, accidents reporting/lessons learned techniques
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Conclusions and Recommendations, Final discussion
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How to Register
Complete and return the registration form by fax: +1 604 681 4166 or email: edumine-support@infomine.com.
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Registration Deadline
Email and fax registration ends 1 hour prior to the webcast; however phone registration can be accepted up to 30 minutes before the webcast begins. Please call +1 604 683 2037 ext. 229 for last-minute reservations. Webcasts fill up quickly. Early booking is advised!
Fees
The full fee for the two sessions of this webcast, including access to electronic course notes, Pre-Course e-Learning and a certificate of attendance is CAD 450.00.
Early Bird: there is a 10% discount if you register at least 30 days prior to the course start date.
* A 10% discount is offered for groups of 3 or more OR if you provide your Annual EduMine subscription User ID at time of registration.
* These discounts cannot be combined.
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Short courses earn PDH/CEU credits for engineers in provinces and states that have CPD requirements. EduMine is an approved provider of continuing education by the Authorized Provider Commission of The International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).
For more details, check provincial or state requirements.
Certificate of Attendance
Provincial/state regulations for CPD require that you attend the entire webcast and that you complete an evaluation at the end of the course. Your Certificate of Attendance, with earned PDH, is issued on completion.
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