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The Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre (MISHC) facilitates the development of the required expertise to ensure that all graduates enter the minerals industry with a well established "culture of safety". The MISHC was formed in late 1996 to initiate education and research into mine safety through the Sustainable Minerals Institute. Mining safety, as such, has not previously been recognised as an area of expertise within The University of Queensland, but has been included in response to specific issues in subjects offered by the Department of Mining, Minerals and Materials Engineering. The Centre was founded by the joint vision of seven mining companies, state mines departments and UQ.
The thorough integration of risk management knowledge into minerals industry undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education programs across Australia is the Centre's overwhelming achievement.
Another major achievement has been the delivery of course content that now ensures university graduates enter the minerals industry with a well-established culture of safety management. Several post-graduate courses are also being successfully delivered, such as the online Graduate Certificate in Mineral Resources - Minerals Industry Risk Management strand.
An important emerging role for the Centre is the ability to work at a national strategic level across the minerals industry. In so doing MISHC has been able to provide a non-partisan leadership role related to excellence in the all-important area of mining health and safety.
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