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This article presents an application of a risk assessment approach in characterising the risks associated with safety violations in underground bituminous mines in Pennsylvania using the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) citation database. The MSHA database on citations provides an opportunity to assess risks in mines through scrutiny of violations of mandatory safety standards. In this study, quantitative risk assessment is performed, which allows determination of the frequency of occurrence of safety violations (through associated citations) as well as the consequences of them in terms of penalty assessments. Focus is on establishing risk matrices on citation experiences of mines, which can give early...
Planning for the social impacts of mine closure is essential to an effective closure process, especially in developing countries where impoverishment can lead to a high level of mine dependency. This article presents the initial results of a study that seeks to monitor and improve social wellbeing and sustainability through mine closure. The research responds to an initiative by a network of community environmental organisations in the Peruvian Andes interested in improving the sustainability of the social outcomes of mines in their communities. The research adapted value-focused decision analysis (R. Keeney, Value Focused Thinking: A Path to Creative Decision-Making, University Press, Harvard, 1992), a methodology...
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