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Mining

We help mining organisations design strategy, safety, sustainability, and leadership systems that work across decentralised operations.

Strategy designed for how mining actually operates.

We work alongside mining leaders to design strategy, safety, and leadership systems that hold across decentralised operations and real operating conditions.

Strategy design

Health & safety strategy

Executive team alignment

Purpose, culture and values

Sustainability strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

What Makes Our Approach Different

Built with teams. Not bought off the shelf.

We don’t design strategy at the top and ask sites to translate it later. We co-design with corporate and site teams from the start, aligning intent and execution before decisions are locked in.

That means:

  • Site reality shapes strategy early, not as a late adjustment

  • Corporate expectations are clear, explicit, and shared

  • Local context is treated as an input, not a deviation

  • Ownership is built across levels, not pushed downward

This co-design approach doesn’t negotiate standards down. It makes them hold where work actually happens—during shift change, handovers, contractor interfaces, and upset conditions.

Our work in mining

Our approach is rooted in proven methodologies including the MG Taylor Process & Method, human-centered design, and OCAP® Principles. We draw from these foundations to create custom processes that honor context, build trust, and drive meaningful outcomes.

  • We help mining organizations design strategy that holds across corporate expectations and site reality.

    This includes:

    • Clarifying what must be consistent across the business

    • Defining where adaptation is expected at site level

    • Designing decision rights when conditions change

    • Aligning leadership teams around real trade-offs

    The result is strategy that supports execution, not strategy that fractures once it leaves the boardroom.

  • Most mining organizations have strong safety standards. The challenge is making those standards hold consistently in real work.

    We support Health & Safety leaders by:

    • Translating corporate safety intent into field-ready tools

    • Designing clear expectations for supervisors and frontline leaders

    • Focusing on the safety moments that matter most—shift start, handovers, contractor interfaces, upset conditions

    • Strengthening Critical Risk Management through practical design

    Our work turns safety systems into lived practice, without adding complexity.

  • Culture doesn’t change through messaging alone. It changes when leaders share clarity about what’s expected of them.

    We help mining organizations:

    • Co-design purpose and values grounded in real decisions

    • Align leadership expectations across corporate and sites

    • Translate culture into everyday leadership behaviour

    • Build trust across roles and locations

    This work supports safety, retention, and performance—by making leadership expectations clear and shared.

  • We support Sustainability and ESG leaders working in complex, high-accountability environments.

    Our work helps:

    • Anchor ESG commitments into core strategy and operations

    • Align sustainability, operations, and leadership decision-making

    • Strengthen credibility with Indigenous partners, regulators, and investors

    • Design engagement processes rooted in trust and respect

    We work carefully and collaboratively, especially in Indigenous and multi-stakeholder contexts.

TOOLS & TEMPLATES FOR MINING

Designing Safety That Holds — TidalCo:

Designing Safety That Holds

This checklist helps mining leaders assess whether their safety strategy has been intentionally designed to operate across decentralized, high-variability sites, or whether it relies on assumptions that break down under real conditions.

The Mining Leader’s Operations Checklist

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Co-Designing Safety in Multi-Site Mining Operations

This playbook is designed for senior leaders in mining operations. COOs, General Managers, Mine Site Leaders, Heads of Health and Safety, HR, People Leaders and Operational Leaders, working across decentralized, multi-site environments.

The Mining Leader’s Playbook

Stories

Work samples

Our projects span from short-term engagements to sustained partnerships over months or years.

  • “I’ve been through many strategy workshops over my 20+ years in mining, and this was by far the best one.”

    Ben Stinson, Director of Health and Safety at IAMGOLD

  • “Tidal enabled us to collaboratively design a Sustainability strategy that has shared ownership across sites, corporate and our leadership. The Tidal team's blend of corporate strategy and facilitation pushed us to have an implementable strategy that we love, because we designed it.”

    Sophie Bertrand, Senior Director, Sustainability at New Gold

  • “Tidal's strategic expertise has proven invaluable in creating a global first in the market. We have a market leading, progressive Sustainability strategy."

    Graham Farrer, Head of Sustainability at Kingsrose Mining

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