{"id":4951,"date":"2025-12-23T18:25:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waimm.org\/?post_type=news-and-resources&#038;p=4951"},"modified":"2025-12-24T11:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T11:41:14","slug":"the-waimm-congratulates-you-on-your-promotion-to-assoc-professor-umat","status":"publish","type":"news-and-resources","link":"https:\/\/waimm.org\/fr\/news-and-resources\/the-waimm-congratulates-you-on-your-promotion-to-assoc-professor-umat\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Assoc Professor Eric Stemn, UMaT &#8211; Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Stemn holds a PhD in occupational health and safety from the&nbsp;University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, Australia, an MSc in&nbsp;Environmental Science from the Kwame Nkrumah University of&nbsp;Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, and a BSc in&nbsp;Geomatic Engineering from the University of Mines and&nbsp;Technology (UMaT), Tarkwa, Ghana. Eric has extensive&nbsp;experience in health, safety and environment (HSE) consulting and&nbsp;training and is currently a faculty member of UMaT, at the&nbsp;Environmental and Safety Engineering Department, where he teaches various&nbsp;undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Before joining UMaT, Eric worked in a&nbsp;consulting role for 4 years, where he assisted several Ghanaian companies in&nbsp;preparing technical reports leading to permit clearance from the Ghana&nbsp;Environmental Protection Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eric\u2019s PhD research focused on improving&nbsp;organisational learning from incidents through improved incident investigation,&nbsp;effective risk management and how the incident investigation process feeds back&nbsp;into risk management activities. Eric facilitates industry-based workshops and delivers environmental, safety and health risk-based training to the minerals&nbsp;industry. Eric continues to consult for a wide range of industries in matters relating to&nbsp;occupational health, safety and environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Eric Stemn was recently promoted to an Assoc Professor at the Department of Occupational Health and Safety, UMaT, in Ghana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assoc Prof Eric Stemn is a Fellow of the West African Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (WAIMM). We wish him all the best in his future endeavors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>credit: profile taken from the UMaT website.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":4961,"menu_order":0,"template":"","news-category":[],"class_list":["post-4951","news-and-resources","type-news-and-resources","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waimm.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-and-resources\/4951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waimm.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-and-resources"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waimm.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news-and-resources"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waimm.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waimm.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waimm.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=4951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}