Training and courses

The mining industry worldwide is experiencing a crippling shortage of personnel who are appropriately trained for the many roles currently needed in fields related to tailings management. This is acute across all levels of personnel from junior through to senior tailings engineer levels. In addition, although tailings storage facility operators can be, and are often, trained on the job, there is a lack of accredited and acknowledged training programs for these operators who are an essential component of tailings stewardship programs.

Future Tails is offering training with a view of contributing to training a range of levels within an organisation as part of our vision to reduce risk and work together on a future with zero catastrophic tailings failures. Recent high-profile failures of tailings ponds in Canada and Brazil underline the vital importance of understanding and implementing best practices in this field.

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Micro-credentials and postgraduate qualifications

With the current acute shortage of suitably trained and qualified tailings management engineers and personnel, a formally recognised qualification in tailings management will improve your employability and future career outcomes. Future Tails is delivering the Graduate Certificate in Tailings Management comprised of 12 two-point micro-credentials. Students may apply for the Graduate Certificate in Tailings Management* after successfully completing six micro-credentials and associated assessments.

 Each micro-credential is offered online over an 8 or 9 week period.

 These micro-credentials are short professional qualifications in different aspects of tailings management that demonstrate your skills, knowledge and experience in the field. You can complete one or two to enhance your knowledge and skills in a specific area of tailings, or stack them towards the Graduate Certificate in Tailings Management*.

Whether you’re looking to break into the emerging field with a new employer, progress your career, gain PD points or just keep up to date with technology advances and Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management, these courses can enhance your existing experience with the latest knowledge and skills.

You can study and upskill in the tailings lifecycle, managing a TSF water balance, case study reviews, geotech reports and data interpretation, and/or appropriate monitoring technologies. The short, affordable modules are online, so you can easily fit them in to your schedule.

For more information on the next micro-credentials on offer, please refer to the UWA Plus page.

*In order to apply for the Graduate Certificate award you must have a Bachelor of Engineering degree or a degree in a related field. Please refer to the Graduate Certificate in Tailings Management. 

Short courses for engineers

If you’re seeking to keep up to date with emerging and new technologies and standards in tailings management, gain PD hours and build your knowledge to reduce risk and improve safety compliance.

Future Tails short courses can equip you with in-depth knowledge in:

  • new in-situ testing techniques
  • pitfalls of numerical modelling
  • geosynthetics in TSF design, construction and operation
  • site data analytics
  • static liquefaction

These one or two-day training courses specifically cater to the knowledge requirements of Engineers of Record (as specified in the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management) and are suitable for any senior engineering personnel working for mining companies or consulting engineering companies looking to build expertise and qualifications in tailings management.

These short courses will focus on technology developments in tailings management, and provide Professional Development hours and opportunities to network with established experts in the field.

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