A full-day course built for WA mining and civil construction supervisors. Know your legal duties. Protect your crew. Lead with confidence — on shift, underground, or on the pad.
Source: WHS Act 2020 (WA) · Mines Regulations 2022, Div 11 · ISO 45003:2021 · WorkSafe WA Code of Practice
The Problem
The WA Work Health and Safety (Mines) Regulations 2022 introduced Regulations 55A–55D — making it a legal duty for every PCBU and their supervisors to identify, assess, and control psychosocial hazards.
Ignorance is no longer a defence. Psychological injury claims average 30 weeks off work — over four times longer than the average for all workplace injury claims. Add FIFO rosters, fatigue, and remote site isolation, and the exposure on a mine or civil project is higher than almost anywhere else.
This course gives supervisors the knowledge, tools, and language to lead confidently — and compliantly.
Sources: SafeWork NSW, Safe Work Australia, AIHW
Who It's For
This isn't a generic HR course. It's built from the ground up for WA mining and civil construction — the language, the scenarios, the legislation.
Surface and underground supervisors, and civil site supervisors, responsible for day-to-day crew management and wellbeing.
Crew leads, shift supervisors, leading hands and foremen who set the tone for team culture on every shift.
SSEs, mine managers, and civil construction project managers with due diligence obligations under Section 27.
Safety reps, WHS advisors, and HR professionals responsible for psychosocial risk management across the operation.
Case Studies
Every case study is grounded in the pressures of FIFO rosters, remote sites, and high-tempo civil projects — not a generic office example with the names changed.
A leading hand pushes an underperforming crew through the back half of an extended swing without flagging fatigue as a hazard. Participants use the Decision Audit to identify where the roster decision itself became the risk — and what a Reg 55A-compliant response looks like.
A civil project manager is under pressure to hit a compressed program milestone and starts running double shifts with minimal notice. The workshop walks through the hazard categories from the WA Code of Practice and builds a control plan the PM can actually use on Monday.
An underground crew member becomes withdrawn over several shifts. Using the PFA framework (Prepare, Look, Listen, Link), participants practise the exact conversation a supervisor needs to have — and where it sits inside the site's welfare escalation pathway.
Tension between two crew members spills from the crib room into camp accommodation. Participants apply the four-step risk assessment to a hazard that doesn't stop at the boom gate — and map out where site policy, HR and the Decision Audit intersect.
Course Content
Six modules plus two hands-on workshops. You leave with tools you can use on shift Monday.
The scale of the problem in WA mining and civil construction. FIFO context, psychosocial risk data, and why psychological health is now a legal priority — not a soft skill.
WHS Act 2020 Sections 19, 27, 28, 47. Regulations 55A–55D explained in plain language. What compliance looks like — and what a breach looks like.
The psychosocial hazard categories from the WA Code of Practice. A four-step risk assessment model. Hierarchy of controls applied to psychological risk on site.
How everyday leadership decisions — rostering, workload, program pressure — create or worsen psychosocial risk. A structured audit framework to review decisions before and after they're made.
Psychological safety frameworks (Edmondson, Clark). The PFA model — Prepare, Look, Listen, Link. Early intervention on shift and the Traffic Light model.
Each participant leaves with a personal leadership action plan. Three specific commitments. A welfare pledge. 30/60/90 day check-in structure.
Workshop 1 — Hazard Mapping: Crews map real psychosocial hazards from their own site — FIFO rosters, fatigue, remote isolation, program pressure — using the WA Code of Practice framework, and build a control plan.
Workshop 2 — Case Study Leadership: Scenario-based decision making using the FIFO swing, civil program-pressure, and underground isolation case studies above. Teams apply the Decision Audit and PFA frameworks in real time.
Workshop Scenarios
Roster patterns, fatigue windows, remote-site isolation, and high-tempo production or program targets — crews plot these against the WA Code of Practice hazard categories and leave with a site-specific control plan.
Teams work through the FIFO swing and civil program-pressure case studies live, applying the Decision Audit and PFA frameworks to decide what a compliant, practical response looks like before the shift ends.
Included
Every resource — module notes, tools, and reference guides — available in the HoldPoint app. Access from any device, on site or at camp.
Ongoing access to HoldPoint's ten tools plus AI-assisted research — your action plan, team check-ins, and PSA assessment, available from site, home, or camp, one decision at a time.
Psychosocial safety self-assessment checklist with regulation references, built for daily use on shift.
A 90-day structured leadership commitment plan you leave with on the day — not a template, a live document in the app.
Issued after a 20-question multiple-choice knowledge assessment. Digital and printable, suitable for your CPD portfolio and site records.
A structured decision-making framework you can use at the pit, in the crib room, or before any significant leadership call.
Every participant leaves with access to HoldPoint — a psychosocial toolbox, a take-home app with ten tools plus AI-assisted research to help build operational resilience one decision at a time. The same Pre-Decision Screen, Decision Audit, PSA Assessment and Action Plan tools from the course, on any device, so you can actually use what you learned when it counts on site.
Work through the same structured decision framework from the workshop before any significant leadership call.
Examine a management decision against psychosocial risk once it's made — mapped to Regulation 55B, saved to your history.
The psychosocial safety self-assessment checklist from the course, on your phone for daily use on shift.
Track the leadership commitments you set on the day and revisit them as a live document, not a filed-away handout.
Why This Course Is Different
Goes beyond theory with the Decision Audit — a practical tool that gets supervisors examining how their own rostering and program calls affect crew wellbeing, not just ticking a compliance box.
Backed by the HoldPoint app, so the PSA Checklist and other tools are still in your pocket on shift — not left behind in a folder after the course ends.
Built specifically around WA's WHS Act 2020 and Mines Regulations 2022, Reg 55A–55D — not a generic national template retrofitted for local rules.
The Day
Structured for working crews and supervisors. No filler. No death-by-PowerPoint. Practical workshops, real scenarios, and tools you'll actually use.
Logistics
FAQs
No — this is non-accredited professional development. You receive a Certificate of Completion, not a nationally recognised qualification. It's designed to build practical leadership capability quickly, alongside any formal WHS qualifications your team holds.
Yes. We regularly deliver on-site at mine sites, FIFO camps, and civil project offices across WA. Get in touch and we'll work out logistics, timing, and group pricing for your crew.
This course is built specifically around WA's WHS Act 2020 and Mines Regulations 2022, Reg 55A–55D — with case studies drawn from FIFO rosters, remote sites, and civil program pressure. It's a leadership and legal-compliance course first, with wellbeing frameworks built in — not a generic mental health awareness session.
No — access to HoldPoint is included in your $990+GST course fee. There's no separate subscription for the tools you use during and after the course.
A 20-question multiple-choice assessment covering the six modules. It's completed at the end of the training day, and your Certificate of Completion is issued once you pass.
Register
One day. Six modules. Two workshops built around mining and civil scenarios. A knowledge assessment, a certificate, and ongoing access to HoldPoint.
One-day course, all materials, HoldPoint app access, and Certificate of Completion included.
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