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11/11/2026
Liontown’s Emergency Response Team (ERT) from the Kathleen Valley Lithium Operation has finished fourth overall at its first Underground Mine Emergency Response Competition (UMERC), also winning Best New Team and Best Captain.
Fourteen teams competed from 30 October to 1 November 2026, making it one of the competition’s largest fields in a decade. Teams were tested across firefighting, search and rescue, breathing apparatus operation, vertical rescue, first aid, incident management and theory.
This year’s competition also trialled emerging rescue technology, including real-time tracking of responders, underground robotics to assess hazardous environments and a submerged crisis scenario reminiscent of the 2018 Thai cave rescue.
Liontown’s results included:
- Best New Team
- Best Captain, awarded to Team Captain Meghan Page
- third in Team Skills
- second in Vertical Rescue
- second in Fire Fighting
- second in Heart of Rescue
- fourth overall.
Our ERT members are volunteers who train alongside their regular roles. Team Captain Meghan Page, a Mining Engineer at Kathleen Valley, said she joined to help keep her colleagues safe.
“I thought, if I had family or a partner working in mining, I would want to know there was someone like us there to help,” Meghan said. “That was a big thing that made me want to be part of ERT.”
Meghan said the team, drawn from different rosters, grew closer through training and competition.
“Honestly, my team made it so much easier,” Meghan said. “I was so nervous at the start, but I just knew they had my back.”
Liontown Head of Work Health and Safety Hayden Spencer said the team had performed strongly on debut.
“I’m so proud of the Liontown team,” Hayden said. “They were really fantastic.”
Thank you to the Chamber of Minerals and Energy (CME) WA for the opportunity to compete, and congratulations to all the teams involved.