A full-day course built for WA mining supervisors. Know your legal duties. Protect your team. Lead with confidence.
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. The cost to your business, your people, and your culture is real.
This course gives you 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 — the language, the scenarios, the legislation.
Surface and underground supervisors responsible for day-to-day team management and wellbeing.
Crew leads, shift supervisors, and leading hands who influence team culture and daily wellbeing.
SSE, mine managers and operations managers with due diligence obligations under Section 27.
Safety reps, WHS advisors, and HR professionals responsible for psychosocial risk management.
Course Content
Six modules plus two hands-on workshops. You leave with tools you can use on Monday.
The scale of the problem in WA mining. 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.
How everyday leadership decisions create or worsen psychosocial risk. A structured audit framework so you can review decisions before and after they're made.
Psychological safety frameworks (Edmondson, Clark). The PFA model — Prepare, Look, Listen, Link. Early intervention 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: Participants map real psychosocial hazards from their own workplace using the WA Code of Practice framework and build a control plan.
Workshop 2 — Case Study Leadership: Scenario-based decision making. Teams work through a realistic site incident and apply the Decision Audit and PFA frameworks in real time.
Included
Every resource — module notes, tools, and reference guides — available in the SkillReady App. Access from any device, on site or at camp.
Ongoing access to the SkillReady participant app — your tools, action plan, and PSA checklist, available from site, home, or camp.
Psychosocial safety self-assessment — the 15-point hazard checklist with regulation references for daily use.
A 90-day structured leadership commitment plan you leave with on the day — not a template, a live document.
Issued upon passing the 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 office, or before any significant leadership call.
Every participant leaves with access to the SkillReady App — the same PSA Checklist, Pre-Decision Screen and Action Plan tools from the course, available on any device, so you can actually use what you learned when it counts on site.
The 15-point psychosocial hazard checklist from the course, on your phone for daily use on shift.
Work through the same structured decision framework from the workshop before any significant leadership call.
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 day-to-day calls affect crew wellbeing, not just ticking a compliance box.
Backed by the SkillReady 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 professionals. No filler. No death-by-PowerPoint. Practical workshops, real scenarios, and tools you'll actually use.
Logistics
The PFA framework in practice — Prepare, Look, Listen, Link — covered in Module 5.
FAQs
This is a non-accredited professional development course. It is not a nationally recognised unit of competency. It is specifically designed to meet the practical and legislative requirements of WA psychosocial safety law — not to produce a qualification. A Certificate of Completion is issued to all participants who pass the knowledge assessment.
Yes. We do group bookings, and SkillReady can deliver this course at your site, office, or a location of your choice. Contact us to discuss group pricing and scheduling. On-site delivery is particularly popular for mine sites wanting to train an entire supervisory cohort.
The course is designed around the WA Work Health and Safety Act 2020 (sections 19, 27, 28, 47) and WHS (Mines) Regulations 2022 (Regulations 55A–55D). It also references the WA Code of Practice for Psychosocial Hazards 2022 and ISO 45003:2021. Content is specific to Western Australia — it is not a generic national course.
20 multiple-choice questions covering all six modules. Participants need to demonstrate understanding of key concepts — it is pass/fail. The assessment is completed on the day using the SkillReady App. Participants who do not pass on the first attempt may re-sit at the next available session at no additional cost.
Every registered participant gets ongoing access to the SkillReady App — a mobile-friendly app containing your tools (Pre-Decision Screen, Risk Matrix, PSA Checklist), your personal Action Plan, Team Pulse check-in, and all course materials. Access continues beyond the training day so you can use these tools back on site. No additional subscription required — it's included in your course fee.
Full refund if cancelled more than 14 days before the session. A credit for a future session is available if cancelled within 14 days. Substitutions (sending another person in your place) are accepted at any time at no cost. Please contact SkillReady directly to arrange changes to your booking.
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Under WA law, your duty to manage psychosocial hazards already exists. Every day without training is a day of unmanaged legal risk.
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