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An employer's early reporting tool for identifying workers at risk of injury and absenteeism has reduced time lost and improved recovery time, according to its CEO.

An award-winning civil construction company has taken the guesswork out of one of its highest-risk activities, by creating its own easy-to-use operator guides.

A Google health and wellbeing manager has outlined the eight "pillars" that support the global company's wellbeing culture.

An employer with a rapidly expanding workforce has found that individually tailored wellbeing programs provide the most benefits, especially for employees who need extra care.

A major employer has reduced its days lost to ergonomic injuries from about 200 per year to just two, as well as lowering its workers' comp premiums, since introducing its "ergonomic champions" program.

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.

• Change management tool wins major safety prize; and
  
• Safety alerts issued in three jurisdictions.

• Carbon monoxide poisoning reveals flaws in safety system; and
  
• Fatality alerts and new toll released.

Australia's largest blue-collar staffing business has outlined its strategies to improve safety following a major acquisition and a fatality last year.