Improve Safety and Productivity With a Connected Worker Platform Built for Mining and Metals
Poka helps mining and metals frontlines execute critical work safely, at scale, from pit to port — even as your workforce goes remote, contract-based, and retires faster than you can replace it.
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The Challenges Metals and Mining Operators Face Today
Metals and mining operators face constant pressure. Risk exposure never lets up, the workforce is retiring at remote sites, and information keeps slipping through the cracks between shifts.
High-hazard safety environments and compliance
Underground mining, hot metal handling, and heavy mobile equipment carry the industry's highest fatality risk. ICMM critical control management, MSHA, ISO 45001, and zero-harm commitments require traceable evidence for every permit, JSA, and critical-control verification. On paper, you can't confirm a worker's clearance to enter a restricted area.
Workforce crisis and knowledge retention at remote sites
Decades of know-how, like starting a SAG mill or troubleshooting a furnace, live in the heads of senior operators and metallurgists. They're retiring faster than sites can replace them, especially where recruiting is hard. When no one captures that knowledge, it's gone for good.
Unplanned downtime and asset reliability
When a crusher, conveyor, hoist, or furnace fails at a remote site, recovery depends on how fast the right person arrives with fault history, repair guides, and parts data. Scattered knowledge means downtime on capital-intensive equipment costs six or seven figures.
Fragmented information and limited frontline visibility
In most operations, the people doing the work and the systems tracking it stay disconnected. Remote, multi-site, contractor-heavy sites make it worse. Safety data sits in paper logs, summarized hours later if at all, so getting it to the right people fast enough to act is a constant struggle.
Empower Your Mining Frontline to Work Safer, Share Knowledge, and Stay Compliant
Poka is a connected worker platform for high-hazard, capital-intensive operations, unifying your procedures, permits, training, and data in the field for every operator, technician, and contractor.
Toward zero harm
Poka verifies critical controls before high-energy work begins and captures every permit, JSA, and near-miss, cutting safety incidents up to 90% and boosting near-miss reports 183%.
The Great Crew Change, solved
Senior operators' and metallurgists' know-how becomes searchable instructions and troubleshooting guides before it retires, ready for new hires and remote contractors. Customers stay 38% longer.
Asset reliability at remote sites
Operators log issues with asset context from the field, so reliability teams arrive with full history and equipment recovers faster. Bosch reported a 54% improvement in Mean Time Between Repair.
Real-time connection across dispersed sites
Every shift, site, and contractor works from one platform, even with limited supervision. Alcoa connected 626 users across six crisis teams and saved 1,040 hours a year on forms.
Defensible compliance
Poka timestamps and tracks every critical-control verification and inspection, keeping ICMM, MSHA, and ISO 45001 evidence audit-ready.
Measurable productivity gains
When knowledge, safety, and reliability live in one platform, throughput improves. Customers see a 24% productivity gain.
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The Poka Capabilities That Matter Most for Metals & Mining
Poka is a single, connected platform where each capability reinforces the others, building a culture of continuous improvement.
Poka deploys permit-to-work, LOTO, confined-space, and working-at-heights forms to field-hardened devices. It verifies ICMM critical controls before high-energy work begins and builds a defensible audit trail for every MSHA or ISO 45001 inspection, with near-miss reporting up 183%.
Up to 90% fewer safety incidents | Critical-control verification before work begins
The Great Crew Change is taking the know-how to start a SAG mill or troubleshoot a furnace. Poka captures that knowledge as digital instructions and troubleshooting guides tied to specific assets and circuits, ready for new hires and contractors at remote sites. Industrial AI converts legacy P&IDs and metallurgical procedures automatically.
On a crusher, conveyor, hoist, or furnace at a remote site, every hour of downtime can cost six or seven figures. Poka captures issues with asset context and gives reliability teams full prior-shift history and repair guides before they arrive. Bosch reported a 54% improvement in Mean Time Between Repair.
20 to 40% faster issue resolution | Full audit trail from report to resolution
Remote, dispersed, contractor-heavy operations make a consistent safety culture hard, especially with limited central supervision. Poka connects every shift, site, and contractor on one feed and runs tiered SQDCP meetings on Huddle Boards.
74% increase in frontline engagement | 40% reduction in shift handover incidents
Poka tracks competency and certifications for employees, FIFO workers, and contractors in one skills matrix. Training happens at the point of work, so Poka confirms current training before anyone enters a high-risk area.
45% faster onboarding | 38% higher workforce retention
How Poka Turns Daily Work Into Continuous Improvement
The best metals and mining operations get safer and more reliable over time, one critical-control check and reported hazard at a time.
Poka creates that flywheel. Near-miss reporting climbs because every form is on a field-hardened device, and Analytics surfaces recurring issues by circuit, asset, shift, or contractor. Every resolved problem becomes a troubleshooting record for the next crew, and each fix becomes the new standard.
Over time, safety improves toward zero harm, asset reliability compounds shutdown over shutdown, and knowledge that used to retire stays in the platform. Contractors and FIFO crews work to the same standard as your own people, driving gains straight to throughput and the bottom line.
Whether You Run the Line or the Plant, Poka Works for Your Team
Whether you run a mine concentrator, manage smelter reliability, or lead HSE across a mining portfolio,
Poka adapts to the workflows your teams and contractors use.
Miners, mill operators, and console engineers get the latest procedure for every unit, startup, shutdown, and abnormal event, guided by the AI Assistant.
How Leading Metals and Mining Companies Use Poka
Alcoa
Alcoa: Real-time communication to minimize disruptions
Alcoa connected 626 users across six crisis teams, coordinating in real time and saving 1,040 hours a year on forms.
Bosch
Bosch: +54% Mean Time Between Repair
Reliability on heavy equipment depends on closing the operator-technician gap. Bosch reported a 54% improvement in Mean Time Between Repair and an 8% productivity gain after deploying Poka.
Soprema
Soprema: Building a one-click safety culture
In a heavy-industrial plant with chemical and fire hazards, Soprema made every safety form one click away, lifting reporting efficiency 20% for injuries and near-misses alike, the same transformation mining and metals operations need.
Go Deeper on Connected Work for Mining and Metals
Frequently Asked Questions
Mining and Metals Leaves No Room for Error.
Poka's connected worker platform brings more safety and productivity to your frontline:
- Require verified critical-control clearance before high-energy work starts
- Put every JSA, LOTO, and permit-to-work one click away, on-site or underground
- Preserve your best operators' know-how before retirement takes it with them
- Catch equipment and quality deviations before they become six-figure downtime
- Give supervisors real-time visibility across every shift and every site
See what Poka can do for your operation.
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Alcoa
