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ALARP for Safety Management of Tailings Storage Facilities

Tailings and Mine Waste Conference (2023 : Vancouver, B.C.); University of British Columbia. Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering

ALARP – as low as reasonably practicable – refers to the principle of testing risk reduction against the cost of the corresponding risk reduction effort. The principle of societal risk acknowledges that there is no absolute safety (zero risk) from engineered systems, and neither society nor a company have infinite resources to spend on managing risks. However, it requires risk management to reduce risks to “as low as reasonably practicable.” ALARP is built into requirements under the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management. This paper reviews the history of the ALARP principle and the tolerability of risk framework, and introduces the roadmap produced by Rio Tinto for demonstrating dam safety to an ALARP requirement in relation to tailings storage facilities.

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2023-12-08

Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/86787

Unreviewed

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