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Technology Partnerships For Early Adopter Clients In Oil & Gas, Industrial Services, Defence and Mining

Virtual reality training has proven to be the most effective way to upskill workers and get them into the field faster. With over two decades of experience collaborating with employers in the mining and oil and gas sectors, Blue Tongue has designed and built a world-leading virtual reality training solution that trains employees four times faster than traditional methods, eliminating the reliance on outdated workshops and physical equipment.

Services Tailored To
Your Needs

Showcase Product – Mining Service Person / Mobile Plant

Tailored for building a skilled workforce, this training equips trainees with essential Service Person skills, including safety protocols, servicing tasks, and job familiarisation.

Designed for organisations looking to build a skilled workforce, trainees will learn how to perform the role of a Service Person. This includes pre-start checks, job familiarisation, high-risk safety scenarios & hazards, and standard servicing.

Hiring Selection Tool for Heavy Mobile Plant Mechanics

Ensure smarter hires with our world-first VR product, testing heavy mobile mechanics’ diagnostic and troubleshooting skills.

The cost of a bad or even average hire starts in the $ tens of thousands. Interviewing mobile plant mechanics will always be required, however on its own it is not the most effective way to hire people. Testing skills is the only way to be sure a person can operate at the level of skill. We have a world first VR product that gives employers the ability to test heavy mobile mechanics for diagnostic/troubleshooting skills and knowledge. Affordable at only $350.00 per candidate test. Can be done online.

Early Adopter Client Technology Partners

Partner with us as an early adopter client to break through operational barriers and enhance safety with custom VR training, designed for long-term results and cost-effectiveness.

We are working with clients that are looking to break operations bottlenecks, improve safety performance and increase skills. We are unique in that we work with industry to build specific VR modules for them at a fraction of the normal big up-front build cost. We can do this as we take a long-term view, and we are only interested in long-term partnerships.

Trade Skills and Safety Experts Driving Project Builds

With our tailored training modules and expert team, we provide the insights and technology needed to close skill gaps and boost your workforce’s capabilities.

We offer specific modules of training so you can choose the units that you need depending on the requirements of your business. This enables you to leverage access to our expert skills and industry consulting team and our technical trade experienced Subject-Matter-Experts. Our ground-breaking technology, in-house tech team reliability and our consulting team creativity make us a unique partner. The process involves operational analysis, skills and safety scoping and consulting, analysis of job performance, workforce characteristics profiling, and identifying gaps in existing training programs.

Critical Risks Safety – A Game Changer

Trainees safely experience and learn from high-risk situations with VR modules designed to teach critical safety controls based on actual incident data.

Through consultation with experts, we have developed VR experiences based on actual incident data, top critical risks and human factors. Designed to allow learners to experience dangerous high-risk situations without the risk of injury – the ultimate ‘lesson learnt’, these modules provide hands on learning of controls to prevent injury.

Training Delivery - Blended Learning Outcomes

We specialise in designing effective VR modules for trades skills and safety, with the added benefit of mapping them to accredited training.

How We Support You

Our local, hands-on team is dedicated to ensuring your VR training resources deliver the results you need.

You will have 24/7 access to training assets so workers can train anywhere at any time, removing the need for expensive physical workshops.

Why Choose US

Get access to the world’s best VR training assets in mining, oil & gas and metal construction

Have limited up-front build costs

Be able to leverage off our trade experts for additional improvements

Be able to leverage off our training delivery experience and support

Gain access to accredited training outcomes through VR

Have a technology partner that is always moving and offering new features

Feedback
From Our Client

The program was way better than I expected — it felt natural, hands-on, and way more engaging than pen and paper. VR helped me retain safety processes by experiencing them first-hand. Even though I knew the hazard was coming, my brain still flinched. You actually feel the danger. It hits differently when you see something about to fall on you. This is the future of training — it's how hands-on people like us actually learn.

LukeFirst-Year Apprentice Diesel Fitter, MLG

I normally teach in a classroom using manuals, but this VR experience was far more effective than I expected. The information actually stuck with me — I was doing the task, not just reading about it. Compared to traditional training, it was engaging, immersive, and felt incredibly real. If this is how we’re training operators in the future, I can see retention and confidence improving massively.

Courtney Mobile Plant Trainer, MLG

Complex topics became simple. That’s the beauty of this VR technology. It bridges the gap between theory and practice. You actually feel like you’ve been inside the machine. Even without a mining background, I was able to retain tasks, safety steps, and remember how components worked.

Raj TandaHydraulics Technician, HYDAC

It didn’t just teach me something — it showed me how each machine is unique and how you need to approach them differently. I’d absolutely recommend it for other apprentices. It makes you excited to learn because it’s so visual and hands-on. This kind of training should be portable — not a replacement for everything, but a powerful add-on.

Marcus BonettiSecond-Year Mechanical Fitting Apprentice, Liebherr

Technology Partnerships For Early Adopter Clients In Oil & Gas, Industrial Services, Defence and Mining

Services Tailored To
Your Needs

Showcase Product – Mining Service Person / Mobile Plant