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Employers must "empower" workers to choose not to answer their mobile phones while driving if they feel it is unsafe to talk on a hands-free device, or that pulling over is too risky, according to a road safety expert.

Effort-reward imbalance and organisational injustice can significantly increase thoughts of suicide among workers, a study has found.

Workplace managers can improve productivity by "normalising" safety conversations and ensuring they're across the WHS regulations that apply to their business, according to Safe Work Australia.

BHP Billiton has reduced its high-potential incidents and revealed plans to enhance its safety culture through leadership development, but concedes that any safety improvements in 2015-16 were overshadowed by the Samarco disaster that killed 19 people.

The HSEQ manager behind an award-winning injury prevention program has outlined six questions that employers must address before their safety systems can be effective.

Being bullied at work diminishes employees' sense of coherence and makes them more neurotic, European researchers have warned.

Workers with psychopathic traits are common in the "upper echelons of the corporate world" and have a toxic impact on co-workers, emphasising the need for employers to undertake psychological screening, according to a forensic psychologist.

Australia has moved one step closer to providing free access to Standards referenced in work health and safety laws and other legislation, with the Western Australian Government agreeing to push the initiative nationally.

In an important message to safety professionals, a futurist has urged employers to look beyond "stopping bad things happening", and create workplaces that engage employees and foster innovation.

With technology "rapidly transforming traditional models of work", employers must look beyond traditional ways of improving safety - and "partnerships" are key, the Comcare National Conference heard today.