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Custom mining and industrial safety training

VR safety training built around your site’s hazards, plant and procedures, written with your safety team and signed off before anyone trains on it.

Switchroom with open electrical cabinets, rescue hook and AED station

Captured in our app.

Your site, your hazards

  • Site-specific hazards

    The hazards your people actually face: gas, energy, heights, confined spaces, moving plant, high voltage.

  • Your plant and equipment

    Switchrooms, tanks, pits, workshops and tooling rebuilt from photos and measurements.

  • Your procedures

    Permits, isolation steps, gas testing, standby and rescue, scored the way your procedure says.

  • Hazards that escalate

    Miss a step and the situation gets worse, so trainees learn why each step is there.

Built with your safety team

Confined space scenario with tank and tripod, captured in our app

Your safety and training people write or review the scenario with us: the task, the hazards, the right response and how it is scored.

They review it in the headset and sign it off before release. When a procedure changes, the scenario changes with it.

What we already have

Examples of scenarios that exist today, and a starting point for site-specific work.

  • Available

    Confined space

    Permit, testing, standby and rescue response.

  • Available

    EV high-voltage workshop

    Depowering a battery electric vehicle safely.

  • Available

    Electrical low-voltage rescue and CPR

    A worker in contact with a live panel, then CPR and an AED.

  • Coming

    Mines first aid and rescue

    First aid and rescue underground.

  • Coming

    Workplace hazard spotting

    Find the hazards in a workshop or site before work starts.

  • Available

    Fire and evacuation

    Raising the alarm, extinguisher choice and floor sweeps.

What rescue brigades have said

Public research on VR for mine rescue brigades in New South Wales found that 360 video sessions were generally well received, but trainees wanted more realism, group coordination and physical activity. That is what interactive, room-scale simulation with team sessions is built for.

Read our summary: What Mines Rescue brigades said they need from VR.

Built for sites

  • Offline

    Runs on the headset with no internet, on site or in a training room.

  • Team sessions

    Several headsets on one local network join one scenario, each with a role.

  • Compatible headsets

    Compatible with Meta Quest 3, PICO 4 Ultra Enterprise and PC VR.

  • Records

    Results go to your fleet console, and to your learning systems through LTI 1.3, xAPI or SCORM, set up during onboarding.

Questions people ask

Can you build training around our site’s procedures?

Yes. Your safety team supplies or reviews the procedure, and the scenario is scored against it. They sign it off before release.

Can you rebuild our plant or switchroom?

Yes, from photos and measurements. Signage, labels and isolation points can match your site.

Does it work underground or on remote sites?

It runs offline on standalone headsets. Team sessions need the headsets on the same local network, which a small training router can provide.

Do you have mining clients?

We do not name clients on this site. Ask us about a pilot on your own site.

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Start with a pilot, or tell us what you need

Most custom work starts with a pilot on our existing scenarios, then grows into what your team needs. Or book a call and describe the project.