Specific skills are required to achieve the Performance Criteria of this unit, particularly for its application in the various circumstances in which this unit may be used. This includes the ability to carry out the following, as required to apply and monitor the strata management plan: apply legislative, organisation and site requirements and procedures for applying and monitoring the strata management plan access, interpret and apply technical information access and analyse historical strata management information related to the mine and failure mode of mine structures interpret and apply design criteria for strata management communicate effectively in the workplace apply operational procedures relating to strata management conduct and report on audits identify and evaluate fundamental geological and geotechnical information |
Specific knowledge is required to achieve the Performance Criteria of this unit, particularly for its application in the various circumstances in which this unit may be used. This includes knowledge of the following, as required to apply and monitor the strata management plan: legislative and site requirements for mining structures, including mine plans, ventilation, gas monitoring, strata support and safety management plans the systems of underground mining, including tunnels, drifts, stone drivage, shaft sinking, pillar extraction, partial extraction, punch mining and fault drivage stress, including mining induced stress, vertical and horizontal stress, tectonics, virgin stress, topographical features sedimentology, including subsidence, water bearing strata, permeability of seam and strata, hydrology, rock property testing, caving characteristics, windblast, faults, dykes, outburst, gas content and over and underlying strata systems of work, including bord and pillar, place changing, longwall, highwall, auger mining, pillar extraction, partial extension and punch mining mining structure failure modes exploration techniques geology and strata gas characteristics strata support and monitoring systems audit methodologies historical information training systems emergency response and evacuation planning processes and techniques |