Tailings and liquid containment risk management
PAGER provides comprehensive tailings and liquid containment risk management services leveraging our integrated framework and extensive experience.
Our special tailings team includes technical, community, risk, governance and emergency experts.
We offer pragmatic but comprehensive independent GISTM conformance validation services.
By incorporating diverse disciplines, we also help our clients to leverage their GISTM work to not only ‘check boxes’, but drive whole-of-lifecycle risk effectiveness and improvement.
PAGER resource: See our tailings risk management flyer.
Your business
PAGER has observed these challenges common to many global resource organisations:
- Across a global portfolio, your organisation has a wide range of tailings risk management practices and standards.
- Basic tailings or liquid containment risk management may be lacking at certain sites or jurisdictions.
- Tailings risk is managed at an individual site level, but with little to no enterprise visibility.
- The organisation has not properly evaluated the impact of a tailings or liquid containment risk event at the enterprise level.
- Tailings risk governance is not clear across the organisation hierarchy from frontline to board.
- Your organisation doesn’t have a cohesive approach to continuous improvement and shared learning.
Our approach
From planning to post closure, PAGER has developed an 8-element tailings risk management framework.
Our comprehensive framework helps our clients address critical gaps and apply shared knowledge across their global portfolio.
At a site level, we combine technical knowledge, facility-specific risk knowledge, and monitoring and reporting. At the corporate level, we focus on corporate governance, aggregated portfolio-level risk knowledge, and a risk-based approach to review and assurance.
We bring both corporate and site elements together to uplift tailings control standards and organisational capability.
Outcomes and outputs
- GISTM conformance
- Independent tailings management review
- Corporate governance and oversight
- Technical risk assessments (QRA, FMECA, HAZOP, other)
- Strategic risk assessments (linking with C-suite decision-making)
- Location selection threat and opportunity analysis
- Portfolio risk assessment, monitoring and reporting
- Critical control management and assurance
- Crisis and emergency management support services (integrated with community and external agencies)