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An employer has gone three years without a lost-time injury after introducing a work health and safety assessment to its recruitment process, and not employing anyone who fails it, according to its award-winning national business improvement and safety manager.

Three major employers have claimed, in their latest performance reports, that they have improved health and safety by inviting contractors and customers on safety walks, restructuring OHS systems, and offering health and wellbeing initiatives, such as skin screening.

Rio Tinto's safety performance in 2013 was "disappointing", its latest sustainability report shows, but the global mining and metals company explains how one site transformed its safety performance, and what it's doing to reduce exposure to noise.

Employers should conduct occasional mock safety inspections, rotating senior managers' and workers' roles in the process, to make safety more interesting to staff and identify more risks, an OHS consultant says.

Origin has reduced its total recordable injury frequency rate (TRIFR) by 32 per cent in 18 months by requiring workers to follow 11 "life-saving rules", according to the energy company's HSE general manager.

With the aim of overhauling its "bureaucratic" and "ignorant" safety management system, the Royal Australian Mint devised a successful new system and engaged "safety advocates", according to the employer's HSE manager.

A Tasmanian employer has saved thousands of dollars and improved productivity by engaging onsite doctors to treat injured workers, the annual Injury Management and Return to Work Conference has heard.

A toxic safety culture not only arises from inadequate processes and procedures, but when workers are cynical and "game-playing" surrounds the reporting of injuries, according to risk expert Robert Long.

It has cost an ACT employer $60 a week to change its workers' attitudes towards being healthy by making fruit and vegetables readily available at the workplace.

Orica has identified 20 major hazard categories and upgraded its decades-old safety, health, environment and community (SHEC) management system to make it easier for workers to avoid the risk of injury.