310056 (v.1) WASM Mine Management 432

Area:

WASM Mining Engineering Teaching Area

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

5.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Lecture:

1 x 4 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:

An understanding of management principles and perspectives vital to a mine manager's successful running of a mining enterprise is gained in this unit. Covers advanced applications in risk management, as well as occupational health and safety legislation.Managing mines component - theory and processes of management, financial and resource budgeting and control. Management information systems and reporting, human behaviour and industrial relations. Contracts and contractors, management of joint ventures, management in an internal context. Professional ethics, team dynamics. Mining law and risk management component - modern mining law including - Occupational Health and Safety Law (OHS) - OHS Act, mine specific legislation, coal, metals, industrials, law governing mine managers. Advanced applications in risk management - human factors, quantitative risk assessment and decision making. Behaviours, errors, accident occurrence, ergonomics, fatigue, heat stress, rosters and FIFO. Major hazards in coal and metalmines for example inrush - case studies of mine 'disasters', Sunshine, Gretley, Moura, Northparkes, Bronzewing, Westray and Emu. Emergency response training.

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

030303 Mining Engineering

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2007	Kalgoorlie Campus	Semester 2	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External