Susan Johnston explains what High Reliability Organisations (HRO's) means and the adaptation of this approach to the resources sector.

Susan is the Program Leader of the Leadership and Organisational Improvement Program, which aims to challenge and support the resources sector to consider how changes to organisational, and leadership approaches can produce better outcomes.

Contact Susan Johnston at [email protected].

Host: Gillian Ievers

More info:

Sustainable Minerals Institute's Leadership and Organisational Improvement Program - https://smi.uq.edu.au/strategic-programs/leadership-organisational-improvement

The Mineral Governance Podcast. Episode 2: Preventing Tailings Facility Failures by UQ Sustainable Minerals Institute

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SMI's Associate Professor Glen Corder, Leader of the Industrial Ecology & Circular Economy research group, speaks with Professor Longbin Huang about the origins, progress and future of technology that turns tailings into functional soil for the purposes of sustainable rehabilitation.

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SMI's Professor Daniel Franks, Leader of the Governance and Leadership Program, sits down with Professor Anna Littleboy to discuss the methodology, members and intended outcomes of the recently announced CRC for Transformations in Mining Economies (CRC-TiME).

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