Workplace training built for the WA resources sector.
FIFO and remote sites · High-risk rosters · Single-gender-dominant crews · Pre-start delivery
Iron ore. Lithium. Gold. Oil and gas. Agribusiness running on the same haul roads. The WA resources sector carries some of the country's highest psychosocial-risk profiles - rotating rosters, isolated sites, single-gender-dominant crews, fatigue cycles, and the cultural inheritance of decades when "harden up" was the only training anyone got.
The Experience Lab has spent more than twelve years on Pilbara sites, in Goldfields camps, and in head-office boardrooms in Perth. We design training that holds up at pre-start, after a 12-hour shift, and inside the supervisor cohort that has to enforce it. Our facilitators have travelled to remote sites enough times to know what works at 6am in a demountable, as well as what plays well in a city training room.
Woodside · “Respect at Work”L&D leads in the resources sector can spot a generic deck within the first ten minutes. A trainer who's never been on a FIFO roster doesn't get the second invitation. We've earned ours by turning up - to Karratha, Paraburdoo, Port Hedland, Newman, Tom Price, Corrigin, the Goldfields - and building scenarios that name the situations crews face on these sites, not the watered-down ones in the training catalogue.
A typical engagement brings a specialist facilitator and a small team of trained Corporate Actors into your room together. The facilitator owns the methodology and the room; the actors are the realism layer. That structure is what gets pre-start conversations the next morning - participants watch the workplace problem unfold realistically, then practise the response. Crews that have switched off in toolbox talks for years lean in. The room learns because it wants to, not because it has been told to.
A selection of organisations we've delivered for.
Woodside Energy
Inclusion & Diversity and Respect@Work programs across Perth and Karratha sites
Rio Tinto
long-running Respect at Work program across Perth and the Pilbara, 94% positive participant feedback in 2024
CBH Group
Realising Respectful Workplaces and Be an Upstander deliveries across regional WA, including Corrigin
BHP
via contractors across Pilbara operations
Chevron
ongoing - entire WA staff through separate Be an Upstander and Stand Up to Bullying programs
Hancock Prospecting
leadership and culture work
Northern Star
Goldfields-based deliveries
Tianqi Lithium
Inclusive Leadership and Respect at Work program with RolePlay
IGO
Sexual Harassment Workshops across Forrestania, Nova and other sites
What we get asked for most.
Realising Respectful Workplaces
Most mining and resources programs we run come back to respectful behaviours. We build the cross-topic cultural spine that connects harassment, bullying, psychological safety and inclusion into one narrative - which is the framing the sector's biggest culture programs are now built around.
Explore the topicTackling Psychosocial Hazards
WHS Regulations now treat psychosocial hazards the same way they've always treated physical ones. For mining - rotating rosters, fatigue, isolation, exposure to incidents - the new Code of Practice raises the floor in a way most sites haven't fully closed off. Our Hazards of Duke play and This FIFO Life of Brian bring it into the room.
Explore the topicPreventing Sexual Harassment
The Positive Duty applies hardest in the workplaces it was written for. Single-gender-dominant workforces, remote sites, social patterns formed long before the legislation. We rewrite scenarios for FIFO crews, shift supervisors and the specific grey zones policy training tends to skip.
Explore the topicCombating Workplace Bullying
Toolbox talks don't change behaviour. Our Bullying Plays - Much Ado About Hector, Same Old Slugger - put the dynamics in front of crews, then build the practical skill of intervention before incidents escalate.
Explore the topicLeadership Development
Shift supervisors and superintendents are where culture is enforced. We've built leadership programs across the resources sector that uplift first-line and frontline-of-frontline leaders specifically - the cohort the rest of the workforce takes its cues from.
Explore the topicPeer Supporter Training
Mining workforces lean on informal peer supporters - the crew member colleagues turn to when something is off. We equip those people with the skills to do the work well: notice the change, hold the supporting conversation, refer with care. Pairs naturally with the psychosocial-hazards program.
Explore the topicWord from the sector.
“It was highly effective and engaging; I have not experienced training of this calibre before. Feedback was ALL positive and attendees were genuinely engaged in the scenarios and RolePlay.”— L&D Lead, IGO
“I've had some great feedback from site today. The team really enjoyed you being there and particularly the flex to deliver on the weekend and evenings.”— Inclusion & Diversity Manager, Woodside
Training Delivered Differently
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Twenty minutes with Jacob will give you a clear sense of where meaningful training fits at your operation, what it looks like at your site, and what it would take to run it.