Mine Tailings Safety

The Mine Tailings Safety video highlights the importance of safely managing waste from mining activities, stored in so-called tailings management facilities, to prevent tailings failures. Past accidents have caused human death and severe damage to people, the environment and infrastructure. Strengthening mine tailings safety is increasingly relevant in the UNECE region with the combined increases in demands for mining and impacts of climate change.

The UNECE Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents provides tools to help countries strengthen mine tailings safety and prevent accidental pollution, including transboundary water pollution. The tools also contribute to achieving the objectives of the Sendai Framework and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Tools include the UNECE Safety guidelines and good practices for tailings management facilities (ENG, RUS) and the Checklist Methodology (ENG, RUS) the latter of which the German Environment Agency created to support implementation of the guidelines.

Safety guidelines and good practices(ENG) : http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/en...
Checklist Methodology (ENG) :
http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/en...