Conference Proceedings
International Mine Health & Safety Conference Proceeding 2026
Conference Proceedings
International Mine Health & Safety Conference Proceeding 2026
Optimising integrity systems to strengthen safety, psychological health and organisational performance in mining
Mining organisations operate in increasingly complex environments where safety, conduct, culture and psychosocial risk are deeply interconnected. However, safety, human resources (HR) and integrity systems are often designed and operated in isolation. This fragmentation creates gaps in visibility and response, limiting organisations’ ability to identify and manage risk effectively, particularly where psychosocial hazards emerge across system boundaries. This paper examines how greater integration between safety, HR and integrity systems can improve both physical and psychological safety while enhancing organisational performance. It explores how existing processes, including reporting pathways, behavioural standards, investigations and organisational learning mechanisms, can be better connected to provide a coherent and complete view of organisational risk. A system optimisation approach is presented, incorporating leadership capability, human-centred design, connected data and effective response processes. Rather than requiring the creation of new systems, the paper demonstrates how organisations can achieve improvement by strengthening integration across existing systems, enabling earlier identification of emerging risk, more consistent triage and response, clearer ownership of controls and stronger feedback loops for organisational learning. Key lessons are that integration must be treated as an operating discipline rather than a technology project; HR, safety, risk and integrity functions each provide essential controls; and trust, accessibility and fairness determine whether reporting and learning mechanisms are used. The role of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, is also considered, highlighting the importance of implementing these tools in ways that support transparency, psychological safety and human judgement. The paper concludes that improving integration across organisational systems is critical to managing both physical and psychosocial risk, and that integrity systems provide a practical mechanism to support this connection, strengthening safety, organisational learning and performance.
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- Published: 2026
- Pages: 8
- PDF Size: 0.139 Mb.
- Unique ID: P-05505-Q7N9M6