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Mining & Resources

Most mining training is technical, and most mining incidents are not. The moments that decide a shift are a crew member who is too tired to say so, a pre-start where nobody raises the thing everyone can see, and the decision to stop work when stopping work is unpopular. Those are conversations, and they are rehearsable.

Key takeaway

This is a sector PTR is building for. The practice library below uses the same method as our work in education, health, government and workplace training.

A simulated open-cut mine pit at dusk, terraced red walls and haul road lights coming on, with two people standing behind a barrier near the pit edge.

Scope of this work

For mining and resources, PTR builds the conversation around the work: the pre-start, the handover and the decision to stop, rather than the technical competency to operate the plant. The clips below simulate the moments that decide a shift. A first engagement here would start the same way our other sector work did, with a real crew, a real setting and a facilitated debrief.

What practice looks like in mining and resources

The moments we build practice for in mining and resources.

The pre-start, and the crew member with folded arms.
Stopping work when stopping work is unpopular.
The hand that rubs an eye, and what you do about it.
The hard hat pushed across the table at midnight.
Checking in on someone at camp, before anyone asks you to.
The drill, and the breath after it.
First light on the pad, before anything turns.
Walking a plant with someone who is not listening yet.
The stopped belt, and the guard nobody mentioned.
A control room handover, seen from the operator's seat.
The trainer at the window, from the operator's seat.
A raised hand that means stop.
Related PTR work

The nearest PTR work to this sector is our workplace and enterprise training, where the same leadership and speak-up conversations happen in an office rather than on a pad. As engagements land here, we will add them the same way as every other industry page: named, with the case study behind them linked in full.

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