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Redesigning workplaces to allow workers to choose a workstation based on their task or mood can increase healthy physical activity during shifts, Japanese researchers have found in a study of a "walkable" office.

A multinational company's COVID-19-era virtual platforms, including a COVID chatbot that has fielded 60,000 safety questions from workers, have been earmarked for post-pandemic applications.

A major employer's new interactive induction program is teaching workers the importance and impact of decision-making through simulations of common high-risk situations, its health and safety boss says.

A major employer is using workplace contact tracing technology to future-proof against further COVID-19 outbreaks and the harm they could have on the business and the health and safety of employees, its general manager of people and culture says.

Delivering a step change in safety management involves "slaying" the "sacred cows", like the assumption that change will leave an organisation legally compromised, according to the health and safety manager of one of Australia's largest utility companies.

BlueScope is well on the way to rolling out its "new HSE thinking approach" globally, as well as new WHS leading indicators and an incident investigation tool involving "learning teams", its latest sustainability report says.

BHP responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by providing "digital personal protective equipment" to staff, expanding its psychological support services and ensuring its 9,000-plus suppliers applied stringent health and safety standards to their own workforces, it claims in its annual report.

• Workers removed from high-hazard "footprint" under project; and
  
• New heavy vehicle work safety laws progress with RIS.

A 12-item tool enabling a large company's workers to self-assess their mental health, and encouraging them to access its previously under-used support services, has improved business efficiency and perceptions of psychological safety, according to its HSEQ head.

• Lendlease reveals COVID-19 controls, including worker mapping;
  
• Employers still blocked from forcing workers to attend work; and
  
• "Good to Go" coronavirus campaign targets work safety, economy.