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How the world's largest mining services
provider retired a decade of Navex and
doubled outcomes across five countries
in under a year.
How the world's largest mining services provider retired a decade of Navex and doubled outcomes across five countries in under a year.
How the world's largest mining services provider retired a decade of Navex and doubled outcomes across five countries in under a year.
After ten years on Navex, Thiess ran one of their most competitive tenders yet. Safe Workplace beat the incumbent and
CaseIQ on usability, innovation, and the ability to be adopted [not endured]— across 15,000 people operating on five continents.
After ten years on Navex, Thiess ran one of their most competitive tenders yet. Safe Workplace beat the incumbent and CaseIQ on usability, innovation, and the ability to be adopted [not endured]— across 15,000 people operating on five continents.
After ten years on Navex, Thiess ran one of their most competitive tenders yet. Safe Workplace beat the incumbent and CaseIQ on usability, innovation, and the ability to be adopted [not endured]— across 15,000 people operating on five continents.
2×
Increase in early
incident reporting
50%
Faster incident
response times
4.5/5
Group-wide
satisfaction score

Thiess is the world's largest mining services provider, operating across Australia, Chile, Mongolia, Indonesia, and Canada with a workforce of 15,000 people. When they went to market for a new employee relations and incident management platform after ten years on Navex they ran one of the most competitive tenders in the space. What they chose surprised the market.
Thiess is the world's largest mining services provider, operating across Australia, Chile, Mongolia, Indonesia, and Canada with a workforce of 15,000 people. When they went to market for a new employee relations and incident management platform after ten years on Navex they ran one of the most competitive tenders in the space. What they chose surprised the market.
Thiess is the world's largest mining services provider, operating across Australia, Chile, Mongolia, Indonesia, and Canada with a workforce of 15,000 people. When they went to market for a new employee relations and incident management platform after ten years on Navex they ran one of the most competitive tenders in the space. What they chose surprised the market.
Thiess is the world's largest mining services provider, operating across Australia, Chile, Mongolia, Indonesia, and Canada with a workforce of 15,000 people. When they went to market for a new employee relations and incident management platform after ten years on Navex they ran one of the most competitive tenders in the space. What they chose surprised the market.
The Challenge
Time to raise the bar
After ten years as Navex users, Thiess knew its limitations better than most. Clunky interfaces made adoption a constant battle. Training new staff was time-consuming and inconsistent across regions. Mobile reporting was inadequate for a workforce operating across remote mining sites on multiple continents. The tool had served its purpose — but a 15,000-person operation with growing regulatory complexity and a genuine commitment to employee relations needed a platform built for where work is headed, not where it had been. Thiess went to market with a formal tender. The brief: find the best employee relations case management and incident reporting solution available, globally. The evaluation criteria were clear: usability, ease of training, mobile capability, group-wide adoption potential, and the ability to scale across five countries with different regulatory and operational requirements.
The team evaluated Case IQ and HR Acuity as alternatives. Neither offered the depth of contributing factor analysis, the ER intervention workflows, or the stakeholder-ready reporting the team needed to justify the function's strategic value. The gap was clear — and so was the decision. The ER team made the case to expand their budget and bring in Safe Workplace as the platform that could finally close it.
After ten years as Navex users, Thiess knew its limitations better than most. Clunky interfaces made adoption a constant battle. Training new staff was time-consuming and inconsistent across regions. Mobile reporting was inadequate for a workforce operating across remote mining sites on multiple continents. The tool had served its purpose — but a 15,000-person operation with growing regulatory complexity and a genuine commitment to employee relations needed a platform built for where work is headed, not where it had been.
Thiess went to market with a formal tender. The brief: find the best employee relations case management and incident reporting solution available, globally. The evaluation criteria were clear: usability, ease of training, mobile capability, group-wide adoption potential, and the ability to scale across five countries with different regulatory and operational requirements.
The team evaluated Case IQ and HR Acuity as alternatives. Neither offered the depth of contributing factor analysis, the ER intervention workflows, or the stakeholder-ready reporting the team needed to justify the function's strategic value. The gap was clear — and so was the decision. The ER team made the case to expand their budget and bring in Safe Workplace as the platform that could finally close it.
After ten years as Navex users, Thiess knew its limitations better than most. Clunky interfaces made adoption a constant battle. Training new staff was time-consuming and inconsistent across regions. Mobile reporting was inadequate for a workforce operating across remote mining sites on multiple continents. The tool had served its purpose — but a 15,000-person operation with growing regulatory complexity and a genuine commitment to employee relations needed a platform built for where work is headed, not where it had been. Thiess went to market with a formal tender. The brief: find the best employee relations case management and incident reporting solution available, globally. The evaluation criteria were clear: usability, ease of training, mobile capability, group-wide adoption potential, and the ability to scale across five countries with different regulatory and operational requirements.
The team evaluated Case IQ and HR Acuity as alternatives. Neither offered the depth of contributing factor analysis, the ER intervention workflows, or the stakeholder-ready reporting the team needed to justify the function's strategic value. The gap was clear — and so was the decision. The ER team made the case to expand their budget and bring in Safe Workplace as the platform that could finally close it.
Evaluated & Replaced
Navex (incumbent)
Navex (incumbent)
Case IQ
Case IQ
HR Acuity
HR Acuity
The Solution
The platform that won the tender on usability alone
Safe Workplace was selected over both Navex and CaseIQ following the competitive tender process. The decision came down to one clear differentiator: user experience. Where competitors presented interfaces Thiess's evaluators found clunky and difficult to navigate, Safe Workplace delivered a platform that was immediately intuitive cutting training time, lowering the barrier to adoption, and making the right thing to do the easiest thing to do. For a globally dispersed workforce operating in demanding conditions, that distinction was decisive.
Safe Workplace was deployed across incident management and reporting on mobile, web, and third-party access giving Thiess's workforce the ability to raise concerns from anywhere, on any device, across all five operating countries. The platform's AI-powered features, including intelligent case routing and early-signal detection, were recognised by Thiess's evaluation team as best-in-class. The rollout covered the full Thiess and Semi group designed, from day one, to be adopted rather than endured.
We also rolled out dedicated hotlines across every Thiess location, each configured in the local language with custom workflows tailored to regional regulatory requirements and operational contexts. For a workforce spanning English, Spanish, Mongolian, Bahasa Indonesia, and French-speaking operations, it was a fully localised reporting channel that gave every employee, contractor, and third party the ability to speak up in their own language and have their concern routed through the right process from the first call.
Safe Workplace was selected over both Navex and CaseIQ following the competitive tender process. The decision came down to one clear differentiator: user experience. Where competitors presented interfaces Thiess's evaluators found clunky and difficult to navigate, Safe Workplace delivered a platform that was immediately intuitive cutting training time, lowering the barrier to adoption, and making the right thing to do the easiest thing to do. For a globally dispersed workforce operating in demanding conditions, that distinction was decisive.
Safe Workplace was deployed across incident management and reporting on mobile, web, and third-party access giving Thiess's workforce the ability to raise concerns from anywhere, on any device, across all five operating countries. The platform's AI-powered features, including intelligent case routing and early-signal detection, were recognised by Thiess's evaluation team as best-in-class. The rollout covered the full Thiess and Semi group designed, from day one, to be adopted rather than endured.
We also rolled out dedicated hotlines across every Thiess location, each configured in the local language with custom workflows tailored to regional regulatory requirements and operational contexts. For a workforce spanning English, Spanish, Mongolian, Bahasa Indonesia, and French-speaking operations, it was a fully localised reporting channel that gave every employee, contractor, and third party the ability to speak up in their own language and have their concern routed through the right process from the first call.
Incident Reporting & Management
Incident Reporting & Management
ER Case Management
ER Case Management
Analytics & Intelligence
Analytics & Intelligence
Mobile & Web Reporting
Mobile & Web Reporting
Mobile & Web Reporting
Mobile & Web Reporting
Multi-Language Hotlines
Multi-Language Hotlines


Laure Gibbson
People and Brand
Thiess
Company Overview
Company
Thiess
Industry
Mining Services ·
Resources
Employees
15,000
Scale
World's largest mining
services provider
Region
Australia, Chile,
Mongolia, Indonesia,
Canada
Previous platform
Navex (10 years)
Key Outcomes
Early reporting
2× increase
Response times
↓ 50%
Satisfaction
4.5/5 (record)
Countries live
5 in 12 months
Expanding to
Semi group
Why We Won
Intuitive UX, immediate adoption
without sustained training effort
AI-powered case synopsis and early
signal detection
True mobile reporting for remote
mining sites
Competitive pricing vs. incumbent
and challengers
Multi-country scalability with local
regulatory config
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Global Deployment
Five countries. Twelve months. One platform.
Safe Workplace was deployed across Thiess's full operating footprint within the first year covering Australia, Chile, Mongolia, Indonesia, and Canada. Each deployment was configured to local regulatory requirements and operational contexts, from open-pit mining sites in the Gobi Desert to corporate offices in Melbourne, without compromising the consistency of the platform or the quality of data flowing back to the group ER function. Dedicated hotlines were rolled out across every location in the local language, each with custom workflows tailored to regional processes giving every worker a voice, regardless of where they operate or what language they speak.
Safe Workplace was deployed across Thiess's full operating footprint within the first year covering Australia, Chile, Mongolia, Indonesia, and Canada. Each deployment was configured to local regulatory requirements and operational contexts, from open-pit mining sites in the Gobi Desert to corporate offices in Melbourne, without compromising the consistency of the platform or the quality of data flowing back to the group ER function. Dedicated hotlines were rolled out across every location in the local language, each with custom workflows tailored to regional processes giving every worker a voice, regardless of where they operate or what language they speak.
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Australia
English · Live
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Chile
Spanish · Live
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Mongolia
Mongolian · Live
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Indonesia
Bahasa · Live
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Canada
EN / FR · Live
The Results
Record adoption. Record satisfaction. Twelve months in.
Within a year of going live, Thiess recorded results that spoke to more than a successful software deployment they reflected a genuine shift in how the organisation reports and responds. Early incident reporting doubled. Response times improved by 50%. The platform achieved a group-wide satisfaction score of 4.5 out of 5 across both employees and stakeholders the highest on record. Across five countries and one of the world's most operationally demanding environments, adoption wasn't pushed. It landed.
Within a year of going live, Thiess recorded results that spoke to more than a successful software deployment they reflected a genuine shift in how the organisation reports and responds. Early incident reporting doubled. Response times improved by 50%. The platform achieved a group-wide satisfaction score of 4.5 out of 5 across both employees and stakeholders the highest on record. Across five countries and one of the world's most operationally demanding environments, adoption wasn't pushed. It landed.
5
Countries live within twelve months Australia, Chile, Mongolia, Indonesia, and Canada, each configured to local regulatory requirements
4.5/5
Group-wide satisfaction score across employees and stakeholders the highest on record for any ER platform at Thiess
Group-wide satisfaction score across
employees and stakeholders the highest on record for any ER platform at Thiess
2×
Increase in early-stage incident reporting
concerns surfaced before they escalate, across
all five operating countries
50%
Improvement in incident response times,
driven by AI-powered case routing and
structured triage workflows
“
The Safe Workplace ecosystem is the leading employee relations case management and reporting tool we found.
The Safe Workplace ecosystem is the leading employee relations case management and reporting tool we found.
Laura Gibson
People and Brand
Thiess


The platform continues to expand across Thiess and the Semi group. With incident management, mobile and web reporting, multi-language hotlines with custom workflows, third-party access, and AI-driven case management now embedded across operations in Australia, Chile, Mongolia, Indonesia, and Canada, Safe Worplacek is the operational standard for how Thiess manages employee relations at scale.
The platform continues to expand across Thiess and the Semi group. With incident management, mobile and web reporting, multi-language hotlines with custom workflows, third-party access, and AI-driven case management now embedded across operations in Australia, Chile, Mongolia, Indonesia, and Canada, Safe Worplacek is the operational standard for how Thiess manages employee relations at scale.
Veteran Navex users chose Safe Workplace.
So can you.
Veteran Navex users chose Safe Workplace. So can you.
Veteran Navex users chose Safe Workplace. So can you.
See how the world's largest mining services provider replaced a
decade-old incumbent and doubled early reporting across five
countries in under a year.
See how the world's largest mining services provider replaced a
decade-old incumbent and doubled early reporting across five
countries in under a year.
See how the world's largest mining services provider replaced a decade-old incumbent and doubled early reporting across five
countries in under a year.
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