KEM-03a Towards a national research and HRA toolbox strategy for The Netherlands

The objective is to provide an for an advice to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate for the functional, ownership, organisational and quality assurance requirements for mining risk assessment instruments, specifically the seismicity, subsidence, leakage and facility risk assessment modelling. Called the Mining HRA Toolbox. The advice should be based on international experience, other, e.g. weather or water risk assessment instruments and guidelines and national preferences or boundary conditions set by the mining law.

KEM-03a addresses three research objectives:

• inventory of gaps in public mining hazard and risk assessment toolbox (HRA-Toolbox) in The Netherlands

• identification of knowledge gaps for realising high quality hazard and risk assessment models focusing on current and potential uses of the subsurface

• recommendations for governance of a public tmining HRA-toolbox

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The FINAL REPORT of KEM-03a includes an comprehensive inventory of both mining risks related research priorities and HRA toolbox development priorities.
The main changes in research priority are: lower priority for gas production hazards and risks and a higher priority for hazards and risks related to geothermal energy production, salt caverns and abandonment.
The HRA-toolbox inventory indicates that many tool components are available, but status in the context of tem is not always clear and hazard and high quality, open and accepted risk assessment model trains exist to e limited extend.
It also discusses options for the governance of such a public Mining HRA-Toolbox aiming at consolidating high quality and sound hazard and risk assessment data, software and protocols.

The KEM scientific expert panel has discussed the project results with the project team. The KEM scientific expert team considers the work of high quality. It also condiders the outcome to be a sound and valid base for research projects and HRA-tool (data, software, protocols) developments in the coming years.
It recommend (1) to fill in the research priorities with specific research questions including input form authorities and interst groups and (2) to start a professional toolbox p[rogram, and first year project for the consolidation aand public access of mining hazard and risk tools.