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Tailings Facility Failures : Lessons for Accountable Executives and Consulting Engineers Davies, Michael; Lupo, John; Priscu, Caius
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The focus on the mining industry’s management of tailings facilities, brought about by several high-profile catastrophic failures, has increased considerably over the past decade. These failures offer many lessons to the industry. The combined perspectives of three former major mining company executives who were also global practice area leads with corporate tailings management responsibility leads to several such lessons directly aimed at failure prevention/elimination. While there are documents available which aim to define the roles of key people in tailings facility stewardship, these other efforts usually fail to identify the essential attributes for these individuals, based upon lessons from the failures that have occurred. The authors’ experience in this field of practice, which combined is well in excess of 100 years and is inclusive of detailed knowledge of both past failure events and incidents that were “close calls” for the industry, allows us to compile a list of what should be considered “non-optional attributes” for both Accountable Executives and consulting engineers to have either role filled by sufficiently qualified individuals. For consulting engineers, it is aimed specifically at those in the role of either the “Engineer of Record” or the “Designer of Record.” In addition, the manner with which Independent Review should be used to inform both the Accountable Executive and the consulting engineer is also addressed, including examples of where that review is no longer independent and, therefore, unacceptable.
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Tailings Facility Failures : Lessons for Accountable Executives and Consulting Engineers
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The focus on the mining industry’s management of tailings facilities, brought about by several high-profile catastrophic failures, has increased considerably over the past decade. These failures offer many lessons to the industry. The combined perspectives of three former major mining company executives who were also global practice area leads with corporate tailings management responsibility leads to several such lessons directly aimed at failure prevention/elimination. While there are documents available which aim to define the roles of key people in tailings facility stewardship, these other efforts usually fail to identify the essential attributes for these individuals, based upon lessons from the failures that have occurred. The authors’ experience in this field of practice, which combined is well in excess of 100 years and is inclusive of detailed knowledge of both past failure events and incidents that were “close calls” for the industry, allows us to compile a list of what should be considered “non-optional attributes” for both Accountable Executives and consulting engineers to have either role filled by sufficiently qualified individuals. For consulting engineers, it is aimed specifically at those in the role of either the “Engineer of Record” or the “Designer of Record.” In addition, the manner with which Independent Review should be used to inform both the Accountable Executive and the consulting engineer is also addressed, including examples of where that review is no longer independent and, therefore, unacceptable.
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eng
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2023-12-08
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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10.14288/1.0438100
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Unreviewed
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