The world’s largest mining company is asking peers to create an international governing body to oversee the construction and operation of tailing dams in response to the Vale disaster in Brazil.

According to reports, BHP is asking mining companies to join together in creating an independent, international organization that would oversee construction, operation and integrity of tailing dams like the one at Vale’s Feijao mine that burst last month, killing almost 170 people. A similar incident at Vale and BHP’s jointly owned Samarco mine killed 19 people in 2015. Tailing dams are used to store mining waste.

In response to the disaster, the Brazilian government has banned the construction of upstream mining dams and ordered that all current upstream waste dams be decommissioned by 2021.