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Lendlease's mental health programs, including "industry leading wellbeing leave" used by nearly 70 per cent of eligible employees, have earnt the Sydney-headquartered company the title of one of the world's healthiest workplaces.

Turning "command and control" on its head and giving workers, rather than managers, the data that drive behaviour change can transform workplace safety cultures, according to a senior safety executive.

A company has reduced its incident rates by 80 per cent by prioritising safety over growth, and empowering workers to stop production if they see something unsafe, its head of production says.

Medibank has cut absences and boosted engagement since moving to a six-star green building, but the results hinge on concurrent policies prioritising psychological wellbeing and bypassing adversarial injury management systems, according to its community and wellbeing general manager.

A multi-WHS-award-winning employer invited workers' families to the workplace to drive home to workers why they need to make safe choices at work, and smashed its LTI-free record by 351 days, according to one of its senior managers.

A major project has reduced strain and sprains by 25 per cent in eight months, by observing workers' day-to-day activities and proactively identifying and implementing safer ways to carry out manual handling tasks, according to its safety manager.

Safety training delivered by supervisors in day-to-day workplaces was key to a major employer empowering its workers to safely undertake high-risk work, according to its national HSEQ Manager.

An award-winning employer's partnership with a national charity to provide injured workers with meaningful duties has accelerated the return-to-work process and driven down its days lost to injury.

Encouraging workers to take advantage of flexible work arrangements and regularly reviewing workloads have helped a new company control worker stress and improve productivity, its director says.

The managing director of a major employer has explained the origins and benefits of its award-winning attitude and distraction-measuring "safety barometer". Meanwhile, researchers have identified major factors that help injured workers return to their pre-injury employers.