Course overview
This course provides the theory and principles of mine safety management system and mine ventilation involving the subsurface environment in underground mining operations. Topics covered include: mine safety management systems, risk assessment, mine dust and gases; hazards and risks; mine fires and explosions; radiation; ventilation circuit design and analysis; ventilation surveys and monitoring; heat stress and other health and safety issues; current legislative requirements and operational standards; and management of mine ventilation systems.
Course learning outcomes
- Understand mine safety management systems, operational risk assessment, and occupational health and safety
- Remember the factors contributing to safety and risk management in specific mining-related processes
- Analyse causes and consequences of mining-related serious incidents (due to both environmental and geotechnical aspects), and associated risk management strategies and control measures
- Apply fluid flow and fan behaviour laws to ventilation systems
- Create a ventilation system for a mine to provide safe work/operating environment
- Create a safe mine design by applying the principals of pillar design, mine subsidence and ground control
- Evaluate the possibility of dynamic /seismic events occurance for a mine