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Nine News electrical safety switch 2 March

Ensuring health and safety by good work design is essential to maintaining your business’s productivity and success, its safety record, and to engage and motivate your workers through positive interaction.

Healthy Work Design forum: Extended Q&A session

The speakers from the Healthy Work Design forum share further insights in an extended Q&A session following the breakfast event.

ON - Communicating - young and injured, seriously

This workers' Compensation Regulator webinar outlines the purpose of suitable duties programs and how they can assist in getting better return to work outcomes.

Designing work to generate healthy and productive work

Hear from Professor Sharon K. Parker, Organisational Behaviour, Curtin University, as she expands on the best practice approaches to good work design and how you can implement these standards into your workplace. This presentation was part of the Healthy Work Design forum held on 22 March 2023.

Early interventions for musculoskeletal disorders

Understanding and implementing early interventions for musculoskeletal injuries can assist in better return to work outcomes. This workers' Compensation Regulator webinar is presented by Michael Donovan who discusses: the background of musculoskeletal disorders, injury, pain and early intervention, the levels of prevention and intervention, key components of successful intervention.

Your worker can access early support for a mental injury. Here's how

WorkCover pays for workers to receive treatment for a mental injury before the claim is decided.

Djarragun College – Gordonvale Campus, Far North Queensland

A special thank you to the staff of Djarragun College who kindly shared their success story by way of encouraging other workplaces to adopt genuine, proactive, transparent workplace consultation processes.

ON Series: Hand injuries for small businesses

Hand injuries are the most common for employees working in small businesses. Dr Cameron Mackay, hand surgeon and plastic reconstructive surgeon explains the complexities of rehabilitation for hand injuries.

A clean sheet - the Holy Cross Laundry story

Holy Cross Laundry has set a new benchmark in the laundry industry. By working with the Injury Prevention and Management (IPaM) team they were able to design out many of the risks that existed in the old plant at Wooloowin when they moved their operations to the new location at Banyo.

Suicide prevention for at-risk industries

This session delves into the stigma of mental health - and suicide prevention for at-risk industries. Panellist Darius Boyd and Justin Geange shares some insight into their own mental health journey, what it takes to talk about mental health issues and how to take the initial steps towards recovery. They are joined by Connie Galati, Senior Clinical Psychologist from the APS, who shares insight into workforce literacy, capability and expertise in mental health and suicide prevention including learnings from their APS Mental Health Capability Framework.

ON Series: Workplace violence and mental health

Michael O'Hanlon from Beyondblue introduces the topic of workplace violence and the effects it has in the workplace and for workers returning to work.

ON Series: Workplace bullying and mental health

Michael O'Hanlon from Beyond Blue introduces the topic of workplace bullying and the barriers workers are faced with when returning to work.