304965 (v.2) WASM Mine Management 532

Area:	Western Australian School of Mines
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 metal mines, 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
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

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