Geotechnical Hazard Awareness 4: Training for Mine Planners

Geotechnical Hazard Awareness Training Videos developed by UNSW, ACARP and Mark Coombe Productions - great safety initiative Alison McQuillan and Prof. Ismet Canbulat.
Strata failure is a principal hazard in open cut coal mining. Four videos were produced by UNSW Sydney and Mark Coombe Productions to assist with the education of mine operators, mine supervisors and mine planning engineers to provide an overview of: (i) what to look for so the likelihood and impact of slope failure can be reduced; and (ii) describe the function of a geotechnical engineer within the technical services department. These new videos follow on the production of Unearthing Black Gold which was developed by the Australian Centre of Geomechanics in 2004. The new videos were developed to capture the technological advancements over the last 15 years and include a new technical section for mine planning.
Video 4: Geotech Hazard Awareness for Mine Planning
Video 4 focuses on the function of a geotechnical engineer within the Mine Planning (or Technical Services) Department.
Legislation requires slope designs to meet appropriate standards to protect the safety of personnel working in and around coal mine slopes. On an open cut mine, geotechnical engineers are responsible for ensuring mine designs meet industry standards.
This video describes how a geotechnical engineer applies and analyses survey, geology, groundwater and mine designs into the geotechnical process. And further details what geological, structural, hydrogeological, geomechanical and spatial data is required to provide exploration geologists a sound understanding of why certain data is being requested and what detail is required when this data is first being collected in the field.
An overview of the four main types of geotechnical assessment completed by a geotechnical engineer is also given. These include empirical, kinematic, analytical (limit equilibrium) and numerical analysis.
Video 4 describes how important it is for the geotechnical engineer to receive the technical information they require in a timely manner to ensure there is adequate time to review, change or optimise slope designs to comply with safety, economic and equipment constraints.
Video 4 is approximately 16 minutes in duration.

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