What Good Looks Like
Quality training in the mining and resources sector is essential for safe production.
Learning and training are integral to productive and safe operations within the resources industry. However, there is a need to better understand what quality looks like in learning, training, mentoring and supervision in the industry. The industry reports that current approaches to training are scattered, highly variable in quality, lack a well-understood evidence base, and are infrequently evaluated – essentially, there is not a shared understanding of what ‘good’ looks like across the industry. Furthermore, the quality of training has been identified as a causal factor in fatal incidents on sites in QLD (Brady Review, 2019).
In partnership with stakeholders in the mining industry, the UQ Learning Lab has been exploring the barriers and enablers to quality training, and the training needs and priorities of the mining industry. We aim to build an evidence base for quality training for safe production, and to communicate this evidence through a set of industry-specific training principles, guidelines, and workshops.
Objectives
- To develop a shared understanding of industry learning and training needs and priorities and how these contribute to workplace safety.
- To co-create ways in which to mobilise the science of learning into learning and training programs across diverse contexts and levels of the industry.
- To gather and develop illustrations of ‘what good looks like’ within the industry.
We would like to thank the Resources Training Council for their generous donation supporting the UQ Learning Lab and our objectives to partner with the mining industry to improve safe production.
