Tailings Management Facilities (TMF) safety methodology

Abstract

The Tailings Management Facility Safety Methodology (hereinafter TMF Safety Methodology) is mainly based on the requirements and principles declared in "Safety guidelines and good practices for tailings management facilities" endorsed by the Conference of the Parties to the UNECE Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents as well as other comparable international TMF standards. The TMF Safety Methodology is a powerful tool for the process of harmonizing technical standards for the entire life cycle of TMFs throughout the UNECE region. The Tailings Management Facility Safety Methodology, which consists of a Checklist for verifying the actual safety situation of tailings management facilities and the Tailings Management Facility Hazard and Risk Indexes (THI or TRI) for assessment of TMFs on regional, national and international basis. Based on a strategy of the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) the TMF Safety Methodology was developed since 2013 within the following projects - "Improving the safety of industrial tailings management facilities based on the example of Ukrainian facilities" (2013-2015), Report No. (UBA-FB) 002317/ENG, ANH2 - "Raising Knowledge among Students and Teachers on Tailings Safety and its Legislative Review in Ukraine" (2016-2017) on the results of trainings conducted at National Mining University (Dnipro, Ukraine). Report No. (UBA-FB) 002638/E. - "Assistance in safety improvement of tailings management facilities (TMF) in Armenia and Georgia" (Project No. 83392), according a follow up activity at TMFs in Armenia and Georgia the Methodology has been improved in 2018-2019. - "Capacity development to improve safety conditions of tailings management facilities in the Danube River Basin â€Ì Phase I: North-Eastern Danube countries " (Project No. 118221) 2019- 2020. - Improving the safety of tailings management facilities in Kyrgyzstan (Project No. 154973) 2021-2022. Quelle: Forschungsbericht

The Tailings Management Facility (TMF) Safety Methodology is mainly based on the requirements and principles declared in “Safety guidelines and good practices for tailings management facilities” endorsed by the Conference of the Parties to the ⁠UNECE⁠ Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents as well as other comparable international TMF standards. The TMF Safety Methodology is a powerful tool for the process of harmonizing technical standards for the entire life cycle of TMFs throughout the UNECE region. The Tailings Management Facility Safety Methodology, which consists of a Checklist for verifying the actual safety situation of tailings management facilities and the Tailings Management Facility Hazard and Risk Indexes (THI or TRI) for assessment of TMFs on regional, national and international basis.