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Bachelor thesis

Analysis of the assessment of risks related to working conditions in mines and how to improve it

    2014

51 p.

Mémoire de bachelor: Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2014

Mines (sites d'extraction)
Risques professionnels
English Metals and Minerals are commodities essential to the development of a country and to the survival of an individual, but the press relates relatively often tragic accidents happening in mines. Moreover, NGOs and other organisations regularly point the finger to the practices of the extractive industry in terms of sustainability. Therefore I wanted to see what the reality was and why companies continued to use their bad practices and changes them at a very slow pace. The methodology used in this research was made of three dimensions. First a selection of countries were analysed to see what their working conditions requirements were. Then, a set of 6 companies among the biggest one were analysed to identify how they apprehended the risks related to working conditions. Finally, a few recent mining disasters were also analysed to see the reaction of countries to the lack of safety in mines. The analysis was conducted through a hypothesis testing process, to allow me to define the parameters that may serve as incentive for mining companies to improve their working conditions in a profitable way. This report does not aim at providing solutions to improve safety in mines but only to see how firms managed the risks related to working conditions. The results of the hypothesis testing process surprised me thoroughly, because if I had to answer the question in an intuitive manner, I would have said the opposite to the findings of this report. Indeed, I tried to see how corruption, the level of development, the location of the headquarter and the size of the company could influence the working conditions. The results I got show that the three first parameters do not influence them. Finally, I discuss what in my opinion may be incentives to changes the mining companies practices towards more sustainability, in working conditions especially but also in a broader way.
Language
  • English
Classification
Economics
Notes
  • Haute école de gestion Genève
  • Economie d'entreprise
  • hesso:hegge
License
License undefined
Identifiers
  • RERO DOC 232898
  • RERO R007935010
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https://sonar.ch/hesso/documents/314521
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