In this webinar, Work Healthy Australia shared how organisations can meaningfully reduce injuries, strengthen workforce capability, and meet evolving psychosocial health obligations.

Throughout the session, our Head of Partnerships and Marketing, Shane Weaver, highlighted why shifting from reactive treatment to proactive prevention is no longer optional. With injury-related costs, downtime, and staff turnover on the rise, employers increasingly need integrated solutions that keep teams safer, healthier, and more productive.

You can view the webinar video recording and key takeaways below.

Key takeaways:

1. Shifting From Reactive to Proactive with 3 Actions
   Shift from reactive to proactive injury prevention by prioritising pre-employment screening, enhancing frontline supervisor capability, and achieving system integration across HR, safety, and operations.
2. Measure Action, Not Activity
   Executive scoreboards should focus on leading indicators like early reporting rates and intervention timeliness to demonstrate agile capability, not just compliance.
3. Embrace the Whole Human (Bio-Psycho-Social)
   Operationalise the model by training supervisors to spot early signs of fatigue and use constructive language to address pain, recognising psychological and social factors are barriers to recovery. 
4. Translate safety into C-suite language
   Demonstrate ROI by focusing on reduced claim frequency and severity, minimising lost days, and improved productivity (the key outcome). 
5. Speed Up Recruitment with Functional Data
   Use job-specific functional testing in pre-employment screens, but ensure a fast, agile process that provides same-day reporting to secure the right people in a timely manner.
6. Work Hardening Boosts Retention
   Formal work hardening/conditioning programs, which focus on check-ins and practical pain education, have been shown to improve retention rates by up to 80%.
7. Eliminate Departmental Silos
   Most money is wasted when departments aren’t working together; cohesive systems and shared budgets across HR, Safety, and Operations are essential to managing the worker’s journey.

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