The Power of Asking for Help
The day after the Manefay slide was a time of great uncertainty. Pictures taken from a news helicopter showed that the landslide was larger than anticipated and did much more damage than expected. Many...
View ArticleSetting (and Reaching) Impossible Goals – Lessons From The Manefay
This article is about a great act of leadership after the Manefay slide when the senior management of the mine helped change the outcome of this huge event by setting a seemingly impossible goal. The...
View ArticleLessons from the Bingham Canyon Manefay Slide
Bingham Canyon Mine after Manefay Landslide – Copyrighted by Rio TintoAfter nearly two years in the making, my new book, Rise to the Occasion – Lessons from the Manefay Slide is to be released in the...
View ArticleRise To The Occasion Video
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View ArticleSharing Critical Control Measures #1 Knowing the Greatest Risk
This is the first in a series of articles intended to share some of the critical control measures that were used at the Bingham Canyon Mine to keep people safe from the largest mining highwall failure...
View ArticleSharing Critical Control Measures #2 Independent Experts, Black Hats and...
In this second article of my series of Sharing Critical Control Measures, I discuss the importance of three critical control measures to help prevent unexpected “Black Swan” events, including: Using...
View ArticleSharing Critical Control Measures #3 – Geotechnical Monitoring Methods
This is the third in a series of articles that share some of the critical control measures learned from the largest highwall failure in mining history – the massive Manefay Slide at the Bingham Canyon...
View ArticleTarget & Response Plans – Sharing Critical Control Measures #4
Background: The Bingham Canyon Mine near Salt Lake City, Utah experienced the largest highwall failure in mining history on April 10th of 2013 when 144 million tons of material literally exploded out...
View ArticleHow to Eat an Elephant
The old joke goes “How do you eat an elephant?” Of course, the answer is “One bite at a time”. But what does an organization do when a catastrophic event is so enormous, such a large elephant, that...
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