When looking at the future in Chile, we see that relevant drivers for the mining industry fall into the category of increased uncertainty and decreased control. These drivers include, but are not limited to professional education, sustainable innovation, and attraction of foreign investment. This webinar will focus on how the rules of the mining game are rapidly changing and which opportunities arise for the Sustainable Minerals Institute as a consequence of those changes.
Bio: Romke Kuyvenhoven is a Mining Engineer through the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. In 2018 she joined the SMI-ICE-Chile team as Productivity Lead and has since been in charge of research and consulting projects focussed on enhanced mine & plant productivity. Her main expertise is in geometallurgical characterisation, conceptual process design, innovative processing techniques and project evaluation. Prior to joining SMI-ICE-Chile, Romke worked with several companies in Chile, Peru, Brazil and South Africa, including SGS Minerals, Anglo American, Antofagasta Minerals and Minera Vizcachita.
Speaker: Philippa Dodshon, Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre
Abstract: Incident Investigation is a largely underutilised process that is able to enhance organisational safety and learning. Whilst significant scholarly research has been undertaken to explore failure to learn from incidents, far less research explores practitioners’ perspectives and experience in incident investigation. This webinar explores research undertaken in this field to determine how it may be used to enhance organisational learning, and reduce the prospect of repeat accidents. Furthermore this webinar will introduce a training program designed to promote effective evidence gathering and analysis, recommendation generation and lessons to be learned from incidents.
Additionally, Philippa's industry experience includes time as a Senior Transport Safety Investigator responsible for leading incident investigation teams and providing team member support for matters involving human factors analyses, and providing human factors investigatory skills across the transport modes of rail, aviation, and marine. She has also presented at the ATSB Human Factors for Investigators training program.
Michelle Ash is highly passionate about Mining and Infrastructure and remains focused on delivering sustainable solutions that help these sectors to continue to create and shape the world in which we live, through digital transformation and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
As Chair of the Global Mining Guidelines Group - GMG - Michelle has contributed to develop best practices and guidelines for the implementation of technology and socially enabled changes in the mining industry.
Previously, Michelle was Chief Innovation Officer at Barrick Gold Corporation where she oversaw the company’s innovation program, looking both at how innovation can drive productivity in the existing business as well as how it can be harnessed to deliver alternative business models.
Michelle began her career as a blasting engineer with Rio Tinto and has held several operational roles in various mining companies and across commodities.
Michelle was included in the Women in Mining UK's 2016 list of “100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining” and in 2019 won the Technology Innovator of the Year Award by Mines and Technology. She holds a degree in Civil Engineering and an Executive MBA from the Melbourne Business School; she also holds a degree in Psychology from Deakin University.