More than filling out protocols: prepare your TSM for assessment with consistency, evidence, and real improvement. We support operations and corporate structures in reviewing self-assessments, verification readiness, evidence organization, and TSM-related improvement plans.
In many organizations, the challenge is not knowing that the protocol exists. The challenge lies in interpreting requirements consistently, gathering evidence that genuinely supports the response, and separating established practices from mere intentions or partially implemented routines.
When self-assessments are not reviewed in depth, common issues go unnoticed: overstated responses, weak evidence, governance gaps between corporate and site levels, unclear ownership, and improvement plans without true closure.
Data Riders acts on precisely these points: consistency, objectivity, traceability, and the ability to act on findings.
Generic self-assessments
Superficial language with little objective backing that cannot withstand rigorous technical review.
Disorganized evidence
Relevant records exist, but are not classified by protocol, topic, site, or owner.
Corporate vs. operations
Gaps between what corporate believes exists and what operations can effectively demonstrate in the field.
Plans without closure
Improvement plans that lack prioritization, tracking frameworks, and clear closure criteria.
Lack of consistency
Difficulty repeating the process with equal rigor across multiple operations and over successive cycles.
Our support can begin before verification, with critical reviews of self-assessments, protocol interpretation, evidence organization, and alignment workshops. In other cases, it serves as readiness, preparing operations for a more confident and objective assessment.
When required, we focus on multi-operation contexts, comparability, consistency across sites, and alignment between local and corporate structures.
Technical review
In-depth analysis of self-assessments, testing consistency between responses and evidence.
Evidence map
Organization by protocol, topic, and responsible area, with end-to-end traceability.
Alignment workshops
Reduction of conflicting interpretations across departments, organizational levels, and sites.
Verification readiness
Gaps, priorities, and a closure roadmap prior to formal evaluation.
Improvement plan
Monitoring framework with owners, milestones, and follow-up cadences.
The Data Riders approach combines critical protocol interpretation, management system perspectives, mining expertise, and a focus on execution. This moves beyond bureaucratic compliance to build a process that delivers real value to operations and leadership.
- Objectivity in interpreting protocols.
- Methodological consistency across assessment, evidence, and action plans.
- Attention to the interface between people, processes, documentation, and governance.
- Bilingual support (PT/EN) when needed for documentation, interviews, and reporting.
Connection to GISTM and global standards
TSM and GISTM intersect in several areas, but feature distinct scopes, terminology, and mechanisms. We help clients navigate these interfaces clearly and minimize rework.
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Annotated review
Annotated review of the self-assessment, protocol by protocol, with critical evaluation of responses.
By protocol, topic, site, and owner, indicating robustness and gaps.
Readiness report
Strengths, gaps, and risks, accompanied by prioritized action recommendations.
Priorities, owners, milestones, and clear acceptance criteria.
Follow-up cadence
Monitoring cycle that consolidates progress and reduces recurring issues.
Cross-site alignment
Where applicable, harmonization of terminology, evidence, and governance across operations.
For clients entering a new assessment cycle, needing to review prior self-assessments with greater rigor, aiming to harmonize approaches across sites, or seeking to transform TSM into an active, less reactive management discipline.
TSM Protocol Assessment
Case study on TSM protocol assessment in a mining operation.
Management System Integration
Management system integration across a multi-operation context.
GISTM Implementation
Implementation of the 77 GISTM requirements in a mining operation.
GISTM and TSM
Global standards for sustainable mining: understanding the differences.
ANM 95 and ANM 175
Regulatory changes and their practical impacts on Brazilian mining.
Tailings is Water Management
GISTM analysis: tailings management as water management.
