Halldale CEO Andy Smith relaunches the new monthly SCT e-newsletter by discussing the coronavirus' effect on the safety critical workforce and how it will change the training industry.

Northern Irish company Dalradian, which has spent £130m over the past decade on works and studies to support its planning application for an environmentally responsible, underground gold-silver-copper mine in west Tyrone, has announced details of its future plans for a three-year, £15m skills development package.

Canada’s Future Skills Centre is to invest C$1.3M in NORCAT, a leader in the development and provision of skilled labour training services for the global mining industry, to develop, test and deploy a series of technology-enabled blended learning programs.

The current pace of innovation and change in the SCT community is unprecedented with technologies and ways of working that were hitherto slow to embrace becoming the norm. SCT's Andy Fawkes reports.

Aluminium producers Alcoa will use virtual reality to prepare staff for high-risk tasks at its alumina refineries in Western Australia.

BHP Mitsubishi Alliance is trialing the use of virtual reality headsets to prepare miners for life underground at its Broadmeadow Mine in Queensland, Australia.