- Cook Labor Government will host the Mining Industry Summit 2026: Building Respect on 4 June at Optus Stadium in Perth
- Mining Industry Summit will bring together the resources sector and key leaders in organisational behaviour and leadership development
- Cook Labor Government committed to the safety and wellbeing of all WA workers
The Cook Labor Government will host a mining industry summit on 4 June - the second of its kind - to reaffirm its ongoing commitment to drive cultural change across Western Australia's resources sector and eliminate inappropriate behaviour from its workplaces.
The Mining Industry Summit 2026: Building Respect at Optus Stadium will build on the foundation established at the inaugural event in 2023, consolidate progress aligned to reports such as the Respect@Work and mobilise leaders to embed respectful, psychosocially safe workplaces across WA's resources sector.
Panel sessions will feature dozens of resources sector stakeholders and keynote addresses from Kate Jenkins AO and Professor Sharon Parker.
Ms Jenkins was the Sex Discrimination Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission who handed the Respect@Work Report to the Australian Government in 2020, and Ms Parker is a Curtin University-based organisational behaviour and leadership development expert.
The summit is a collaborative effort of the Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety Program, a whole-of-government initiative to improve the health, safety and wellbeing of workers in WA's mining industry.
Summit registrations are free to WA's resources sector participants and open now.
For more information on the 4 June event, visit the Mining Industry Summit 2026: Building Respect website.
As stated by Industrial Relations Minister Simone McGurk:
"The Cook Labor Government believes that every WA worker should be safe, respected, and supported.
"Safe and respectful workplaces are a moral imperative and a business necessity, critical to the mining industry's ability to attract, retain and empower a diverse, high-performing workforce.
"Psychosocial safety is not a set and forget; it is an ongoing commitment. As is the case with physical safety across the resources sector, emerging risks and changing circumstances require us to continuously reinforce, adapt and improve our approach."
