The Slip

The Slip

The Slip is a theatre-based learning experience from ACT Australia | NZ that dramatises a real-world mining story. Inspired by the Bingham Canyon Mine slip, the production focuses on challenge, courage and effective safety leadership in high-risk settings. Through live performance and interactive facilitation, participants gain practical tools to strengthen leadership, foster a positive safety culture and enhance organisational responses to significant risks.

The production addresses key health and safety principles, including safety culture, psychosocial and physical hazards and critical controls. ACT Australia | NZ uses immersive storytelling to engage both emotionally and intellectually, fostering reflection and shared learning. Audiences benefit from practical examples of positive outcomes and effective leadership, gaining clear guidance on behaviours and choices that lead to safer workplaces.

The Slip prompts participants to consider effective safety leadership and how open communication supports risk management. Feedback from ACT Australia | NZ shows audiences found the program relevant and applicable to their workplaces. With its mix of theatre, storytelling and discussion, The Slip helps organisations build safety awareness, leadership and workplace culture.

ACT Australia | NZ

ACT Australia | NZ delivers powerful workforce development programs through live theatre, film and facilitated discussions, uniquely combining immersive storytelling with interactive participation to ignite safer, stronger leadership and workplace culture. The organisation sparks honest intellectual and emotional engagement, prompting deep reflection on workplace decisions, behaviours and responsibilities. Through bold, authentic communication methods, ACT Australia | NZ creates transformative learning, inspiring meaningful conversations and lasting change.

Operating in Australia and New Zealand, ACT Australia | NZ designs and delivers theatre-based safety training, documentary films, workshops and large-scale engagement events that challenge and inspire. Its productions spotlight real workplace dilemmas, inviting participants to reflect on how personal choices, communication and culture shape lives and safety. By blending professional performance with open discussion, the organisation empowers workforces to transform insights into meaningful change.

ACT Australia | NZ is known for powerful, engaging programs that help people feel safer, more respected and more connected at work. Its work sparks honest reflection, deeper collaboration and shared accountability, empowering organisations to face complex human factors that shape performance and wellbeing. Through compelling storytelling and immersive learning, ACT Australia | NZ inspires stronger safety cultures and a more connected workforce.