21–22 May 2026, Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre
Be part of mining’s most important conversation.
Overview
The AMR Safety Summit brings together mining’s safety decision makers, innovators and frontline experts for two days of powerful discussion and practical insight.
Hosted in Perth, the summit combines a high-level conference program with a boutique exhibition. From zero harm and human performance to hands-on workshops on critical controls, the focus is on what actually changes outcomes on site.
If you influence safety outcomes — or your work supports the people who do — The AMR Safety Summit is your opportunity to help strengthen the systems that keep people alive.
Speakers
Chloe Coutinho
Managing Editor
The Australian Mining Review
Dale Harris
Chief Operating Officer
Hancock Iron Ore
Warren Wellbeloved
Group HSS Officer
BHP
Rachel Jones
Head of Health and Safety
Fortescue
Chris Harris
Head of Mental Health
Mineral Resources
Hon David Michael MLA
Government of Western Australia
Zara Fisher
VP Health, Safety, Environment & Training
Perenti
Tony Robertson
Director WorkSafe Mines Safety
Matt Collier
Head of Health, Safety and Environment
IGO Limited
Danielle Pukeroa
Senior Manager Health and Safety
Wyloo
Jesse Forgues
Head of Product, HaulX
Fortescue
Ray Spires
Regional Health and Safety Director
Alcoa
Kado Muir
Activist & Impact Entrepreneur
Dilji Group Holdings
Helen Fitzroy
Work Safety Advocate, Author & Speaker
Chris Owen
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright
Paul Lucey
Director
Project 48
Chris Coutinho
Manager- Sustainability and ESG
Tianqi Lithium Energy Australia
Nathan Rooney
Senior Risk and Compliance Advisor
Westgold
Annett Koenig
Neuroscientist
Ryan Binedell
Head of HSEQ
Warrikal
Craig Domoney
MMP Technical Services Manager
Maptek
Sujith Panikkar
Principal Consultant
HIMA
Sean Lavin
Learning and Development Partnerships Manager
Everyday Massive
Hassan Qadri, B.Eng
Technical Sales Manager
Geographe
Stephanie Clarke, BSc(Hons)OT
Lead Occupational Therapist
Multi-Coached
Michael Marinovich
Technical Director
Adaptus
Agenda
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| Time | Session | Speaker(s) |
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| 9:00am | Opening Remarks & Acknowledgement of Country Welcome |
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| 9:10am | Ministerial Address Address |
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| 9:40am | Thought Leadership Panel: Critical minerals, critical controls Panel |
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| 10:20am | Networking & Refreshment Break Networking |
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| 11:00am | Regulator’s Address Regulator |
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| 11:30am | Just a Number Keynote |
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| 12:00pm | Leader Fireside: Safety Starts at the Top Fireside |
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| 12:40pm | Networking & Lunch Lunch |
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| 1:40pm | Country, Closure and Cultural Risk: Mining’s Next Governance Frontier Panel |
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| 2:10pm | Keynote: Mind Matters: giving mental health the same priority as physical health and safety Keynote |
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| 2:40pm | Networking & Refreshment Break Networking |
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| 3:10pm | The Business of Doing Better: From Compliance to Commitment Session |
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| 3:40pm | Q&A: The Real Risks and Rewards of AI for Mining Safety Q&A |
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| 4:10pm | Closing Remarks from the Chair & Networking Function Close |
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| 9:00am | Opening Remarks Welcome |
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| 9:10am | Fortescue’s Collision Avoidance System (CAS) Tech |
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| 9:40am | Critical Risk Refresh: From paper-safe to real-safe Keynote |
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| 10:00am | ESG litigation: what’s new, what’s coming and what should you be worried about? Legal |
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| 10:30am | Networking & Refreshment Break Networking |
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| 11:00am | From footnote to front page: Putting a dollar value on safety Session |
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| 11:30am | When You Work for Everyone: Supplier Realities and the Safety Lessons Nobody Talks About Panel |
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| 12:00pm | Networking Lunch Lunch |
| Time | Session | Speaker(s) |
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| 9:30am-10:00am | Operational Risk, Assurance & Accountability: What ‘Good’ Looks Like in 2026 View details
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| 11:00am-11:45am | Guidelines for Analysis, Selection, Design and Operation of Safety Instrumented Systems View detailsMining is high-risk, and managing it requires structured hazard analysis and strong safeguards. Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) are critical in preventing incidents and protecting people, assets, and the environment. |
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| 12:00pm-12:30pm | Muscular Skeletal Injuries (MSI’s) within the mining industry – How safer working practises and engineered solutions can aid prevention. View detailsThis session will explore the growing challenge of musculoskeletal injuries in the mining industry. The session will reinforce the critical role of safer work practices, training, and early intervention strategies as well as demonstrate how engineered solutions such as purpose built tooling, ergonomic equipment design, and lightweight components can significantly reduce physical strain on workers. Attendees will gain practical advice to minimising injury risk, improving worker wellbeing, and driving safer, more sustainable outcomes for their team members. |
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| 2:00pm-2:40pm | Helping BUMA Australia turn frontline leadership into an operational discipline View detailsGreat supervision shouldn’t depend on who’s leading the shift. In practice, supervisors can find themselves constantly squeezed between production targets and their crew’s immediate needs. As a result, the noise of urgent demands leaves frontline leaders stuck in a cycle of just ‘getting it done’. In this showcase, we share how we collaborated with BUMA Australia to bridge the gap between organisational expectations and site reality to help build real leadership consistency that shifts the daily experience from ‘spinning wheels’ to ‘gaining traction’. We’ll explore: The productivity trap: Why supervisors feel more productive when they fix the urgent, even as it steals energy needed to get ahead of the day. Compliance to culture: How shifting mindsets from compliance to performance helps build real, consistent capability. Gaining traction: How a simple framework for building small, daily habits helps leaders make real progress in both their day-to-day work and across different roster cycles. |
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| 3:40pm-4:10pm | Pressure, Load, and the First Signs on Site View detailsSerious incidents in mining are rarely the result of poor intent, lack of skill, or a single procedural breach. More often, they emerge when sustained cognitive load, extended shifts, fatigue and production pressure quietly erode judgment and decision-making long before an error, deviation, or safety event becomes visible. Grounded in clinical neuroscience, contemporary research on stress and fatigue and mining safety data, this session examines how sustained cognitive load reshapes attention, situational awareness, judgment and risk perception at a neurological level. These changes develop gradually, most often in experienced operators, supervisors and leaders who continue to function while operating closer to their cognitive limits, making early degradation difficult to detect through traditional safety metrics or lag indicators. |
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| Day 2 | 11:00am-11:30am | Improving Underground Mobile Mechanised Mining Productivity with Safety in Mind View detailsIs your underground CAS actually keeping your people safe, or just giving you confidence it doesn't deserve? Join Craig Domoney, MMP Technical Services Manager at Maptek, for a data-driven workshop that challenges some uncomfortable assumptions about collision avoidance in underground hard rock mining. In this session you'll discover:
If you manage underground mobile equipment, this session will change how you think about what safe actually means. |
Pricing
Full Delegate Pass - Two Days
$1,295 + GST
Free workshop sessions
See the program in the agenda above.
Sponsors
Thank you to the organisations supporting The AMR Safety Summit.
Layher is the world’s leading manufacturer of modular scaffolding systems, renowned for German engineering, safety, and innovation. With over 80 years of experience in construction, industrial, infrastructure, and event sectors, Layher provides integrated access solutions that help clients build safer, faster, and more efficiently. Our range of integrated scaffolding systems includes Allround Lightweight, bridging systems, temporary roofs, and shoring solutions, all supported by local engineering, training, and detailed design services.
With a strong presence across Australia, Layher collaborates with contractors, asset owners, and safety professionals to enhance standards on every project, from small maintenance jobs to large, complex structures. We have been active in the Western Australian market for more than 20 years and continue to invest, with a new facility scheduled to open in 2026, featuring training and demonstration areas.
Using Layher scaffolding improves project safety. Users benefit from working platforms with higher load capacities that are free from gaps and trip hazards, along with comprehensive technical support. The installation and dismantling of the scaffolding are also significantly safer due to its lighter weight and fewer components compared to traditional systems. The ability to crane structures into position, combined with integrated advanced guardrails and cantilever options that eliminate the need for heavy trusses, ensures the project is carried out safely from start to finish.
Geographe has partnered with the mining and resources sector to engineer smarter, safer, and more durable replacement parts and specialised tooling to help optimise mining assets for over 5 decades.
Proudly Australian owned and operated, Geographe combines advanced manufacturing, mechanical engineering and data driven insights to help mine sites improve equipment reliability and uptime.
Backed by a deep understanding of maintenance pain points, the company’s promise—Mine Machine Challenges Solved—reflects its focus on developing solutions that reduce risk, extend component life, and enhance safety in heavy mobile equipment.
Through close collaboration with maintenance and reliability teams, Geographe continues to innovate for our customers with one key principle in mind: keeping people safe and operations moving.
Everyday Massive is an award-winning professional services company dedicated to improving the human experience of safety, risk and workforce performance for the global mining industry.
Through human-centred design, we turn compliance into culture, safety strategies into safety reality, and create usable solutions that help leaders and teams to take real ownership.
We’re frontline fluent, able to translate the language of governance, risk and critical controls into tools and experiences that deliver change where it matters most.
EVERYDAY moments, MASSIVE impact.
Exhibitors
Maptek believes that to make mining more efficient, miners should be enabled to make better decisions through integrated decision-making solutions. This integration is particularly important as it enables our customers to turn data into actionable insights at every stage of the mining life cycle. In this way Maptek will change the way mining is done forever.
Sanax Medical has been servicing the resources industry of WA for close to 40 years.
We pride ourselves on supplying all your medical, first aid, pharmaceutical and associated health and safety supplies.
We have an extensive range from a plaster to a professional defibrillator and will source and supply specific requests.
We have a dedicated and knowledgeable team backed by our ISO 9001 Quality Management Standards.
Please come and speak to one of our experienced staff to discuss supply opportunities and procurement efficiencies we can build into your processes.
The HIMA Group is a global independent provider of safety-related automation solutions for the process and rail industries that protect people, assets, and the environment from harm. Founded in 1908, the family-owned company is headquartered in Germany.
The open and independent HIMA Safety Platform combines hardware and software on a single technology platform and offers a uniform security concept. With more than 50,000 installed safety systems (SIL 3 / SIL 4, PL e, CENELEC SIL 4), HIMA is considered a technology leader. In addition to proven safety technology, HIMA offers consulting, safety engineering, and services as well as training.
As a safety expert, HIMA is pioneering the digitalisation of functional safety and generates significant added value for customers with holistic safety solutions.
Locally, HIMA Australia supports customers with safety consulting, engineering, lifecycle services, and specialist training, ensuring reliable performance from design through operation.
The Buddie System is the world's first wireless instant safety alert device and is a proven crane safety control designed to reduce the risk of serious incidents arising from communication failure during lifting operations. Developed in Australia and now deployed internationally, the system provides a simple, reliable safeguard in high-risk and complex crane environments.
The Buddie System enables personnel working closest to the load to immediately alert the crane operator to imminent danger via a wearable, wireless breakaway lanyard device. Activation triggers an instant audible alarm in the crane cab, ensuring critical warnings are received without delay, radio congestion, or ambiguity.
Importantly, The Buddie System is not intended to replace existing safety controls, procedures, or training. It operates as a last-line defence, strengthening an organisation’s risk management framework by addressing a well documented failure point in crane operations: loss of effective communication.
By delivering a low-cost, high-impact layer of protection, The Buddie System supports executive duty of care obligations, incident prevention strategies, and a demonstrable commitment to workforce safety.
GCG Health Safety & Hygiene is Australia’s largest independently owned Occupational Hygiene & Safety consultancy, with more than 100 consultants operating nationally.
At the AMR Safety Summit, we’re showcasing Exposi Hygiene Management System, a software solution that brings the entire hygiene process together in one smart, scalable platform – helping teams make better decisions to control risk, from assessment to control management.
Exposi seamlessly integrates sample management, video exposure monitoring, advanced analytics, dashboard reporting, compliance support and control management in one easy-to-use platform.
Visit our booth to see modern occupational hygiene management in action.
Find out more at gcg.net.au or exposi.com.
Core Health Consulting was founded in 2007 with one simple goal for our Aussies to ‘stay healthy, stay informed’.
We have always focused on improving employee’s health by educating workplaces and their employees on the most common health issues today, by having the conversation and bringing the awareness to the workplace.
Core Health takes the complexity out of healthcare education, making medical and complementary health knowledge relevant, engaging and relatable for those in the mining, construction and trade industry.
Core Health Consulting is recognised nationally to deliver Mental Health First Aid courses as well as the Resilience First Aid Responder courses and coaching sessions.
With extensive experience in wellbeing and workplace training, Core Health Consulting is committed to enhancing the health of Australia’s blue-collar workforce.
HazView is a map based hazard management platform built for mining and heavy industry. It replaces fragmented reporting with a single, visual system that makes hazards easy to identify, understand and act on.
Teams log hazards and inspections directly on an interactive map, attach photos and notes, and track status from active through to resolution. Statutory reports are generated automatically, improving compliance and reducing administrative workload. Data is visualised through intuitive dashboards and integrates seamlessly with existing systems
Designed for field use, HazView works offline on any device, ensuring consistent data capture in real conditions.
By combining spatial context with real time visibility, HazView improves situational awareness, simplifies communication and supports faster, more informed decisions across site.
The Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety (MARS) Centre is based within Edith Cowan University’s School of Business and Law, with strong collaboration from the School of Medical and Health Sciences. Funded by the WA Government’s MARS Program, the Centre takes a multidisciplinary approach to improving safety, respect and mental health across Western Australia’s mining sector.
Working closely with industry, the MARS Centre conducts research, develops evidence-based initiatives, and supports organisations to build mentally healthy workplaces and a culture grounded in safety and respect.
The Centre also focuses on preparing the sector for future workplace safety challenges through innovation, education and capability building.
In addition to its research and industry engagement, the MARS Centre delivers the Graduate Certificate of Leadership in Mining Workplace Safety, supporting current and emerging leaders to drive positive change across the resources industry.
Avetta is building the largest global community of businesses and suppliers who are ready to work. Its unified platform streamlines compliance, prequalification, safety, and performance benchmarking in a single, integrated experience. Trusted by over 130,000 businesses across more than 120 countries, Avetta blends AI-driven insights and human expertise to close risk gaps and strengthen supplier reliability, so projects start on time, risks are managed proactively, and operations scale with certainty.
Offering Australia-wide unblocking services for paste fill pipes, helping you reduce costly pipe replacements. Our experienced team works efficiently to restore flow with minimal disruption to your mining operations, keeping your site running smoothly and safely.
Deploy Medical is a doctor-led occupational health provider specialising in pre-employment medicals, injury management, and workplace health programs across Western Australia. We work across all industry sectors that require accurate, timely, and clinically rigorous assessments, from standard pre-employment screening through to complex legislative medicals.
Our founding doctors hold ownership in the business alongside our executive team. Clinical accountability is built into our structure whereby every assessment is reviewed and authorised by a qualified GP or occupational physician, and same-day results are available on standard pre-employment medicals to keep your mobilisation on schedule.
SpanSet Australia leads in specialised safety solutions tailored to the complex demands of the Australian mining industry. With decades of global expertise, SpanSet supports mining operations across lifting, load control, height safety, and engineered systems designed to perform in high-risk environments. The business operates under internationally recognised ISO-certified quality systems, ensuring consistent performance, traceability, and compliance across all products and services.
Manufacturing locally, SpanSet Australia produces a wide range of Australian Made lifting and restraint solutions, allowing for faster turnaround, quality assurance, and alignment with site-specific requirements. This local capability is complemented by the design and delivery of bespoke engineered solutions, developed in collaboration with customers to address unique operational challenges.
From shutdown maintenance to heavy transport and confined space work, SpanSet combines certified equipment with technical expertise and onsite training. Through innovations such as Auxivo wearable exoskeletons, SpanSet is also supporting mining organisations in reducing fatigue and musculoskeletal strain, advancing safer and more sustainable operations.
MOXI was formed in 2004 in response to the increasing needs for quality competency development services internationally. MOXI delivers Training, Inspection and auditing services to the oil and gas, mining, mineral processing and infrastructure industries – worldwide.
Competency is a measurement of applied knowledge via practical evidence as demonstrated by the individual to agreed industry criteria. All MOXI trainers, assessors, inspectors and consultants are experienced and accredited professionals in their fields of expertise and hold current applicable qualifications, as required under the Australian Standards AS/NZS 4761 and the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (ACT, 2011) (NVR).
In 2012 MOXI commenced operations to establish and implement a full suite of EEHA services including Inspections, Classification, Auditing and Consulting to support the Energy and infrastructure industries of Australia and globally.
MOXI Vision
To provide unique, focused solutions for the management of competency driven training needs to the oil and gas, mining, mineral processing and infrastructure industries worldwide. MOXI aim to be recognised as the Premier Provider of EEHA Inspection, Verification and Training services, delivering quality and vision and to provide clients with the satisfaction of gaining value-add solutions that derive management outcomes.
MOXI Mission
MOXI will ensure a high quality of service delivery through a flexible team-working approach based upon best practices. MOXI will liaise closely with industry to evaluate clients’ needs and will review service provision continuously in order to verify that these requirements are met.
WHAT WE DO
MOXI delivers the EEHA services you need to get the job done, safely, efficiently and to a high standard. Whether you need a short course for 8 personnel, a 6 month tailored program for 500 personnel, a single site inspection or complete management of all EEHA maintenance and EEHA personnel, MOXI delivers
One IT is a Perth-based custom software company with 25 years’ experience building practical systems for mining, resources and safety organisations. We design software around your processes, improving efficiency, accuracy and visibility across every area of your operation. Our scalable solutions support safety workflows including SWIs, MARS, pre-starts, compliance management and employee training matrices. We build fixed price, flexible systems that match how you work and grow with your business. You own the system with no per-user fees. Let’s chat!
Sponsorship & Exhibition Opportunities
When & Where
Dates: 21–22 May 2026
Venue: Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre (PCEC)
21 Mounts Bay Rd, Perth WA 6000