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RTW practices are a team sport. WorkCover Queensland’s Injury Risk Reduction Initiatives show...
Patients are encouraged to ‘self-manage’ their chronic pain conditions. But there are external...
10 common and unhelpful myths about low back pain, and 10 facts that bust them.
A ‘recovering interventional spine physiatrist’ makes the case for spine clinicians paying more...
What do we know about how workers access, understand and engage with information about workers...
Dr Mary Wyatt introduces the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine's...
The ‘Principles on the role of the GP in supporting worker participation’ provide guidance to...
A partnership between researchers and a workers compensation insurer (WorkCover Queensland) is...
General practitioners clearly play a critical role and we ask them to do a lot in a complex...
In our ongoing quest to find ways to translate research into practice in our work injury...
Implementing evidence-based interventions to improve how we care for workers is not easy. Are...
Evidence-based strategies for organisations to support employees across the full spectrum of...
Our standard pathway of care in injury management leads to low value care and...
The 'It Pays to Care' report calls for change in our work injury schemes, but recognises that...
An important policy paper — It pays to care — calls for a conversation about, and action on, how...
There are 11 work-related factors that employers must identify and manage to prevent mental...
Tips to help develop a mindset that builds resilience and helps us deal with challenging...
In this webinar, Jennifer Fry, Director of WorkWell at WorkSafe Victoria, shares free tools and...
How can we better to identify and support workers who are risk of developing secondary...
Professor Alex Collie & Dr Mary Wyatt
In this webinar Professor Alex Collie, Director of the Healthy Working Life Research Group and...
Small business owners have been doing it tough for a long time and statistics are demonstrating...
‘Real stories from real cops’—how to recognise and reduce the impact of psychological hazards on...
We all have 3 basic psychological needs that must be fulfilled if we are to do well and feel...
How to help build self-efficacy — tips for supporting a worker who may have lost confidence...
"Since the pandemic started, there is a general desire by workplaces to do more about workplace...
Michael Plowright, Director of Working Well Together shares from over two decades of leadership...
An important conversation about the challenges of engaging with small business owners and how we...
We speak with Professor of Practice Karina Jorritsma, one of the lead researchers at Thrive at...
In this case study, a fundraising professional shares how her confidence and mental health were...
Organisations have a lot to gain from battling insomnia, with benefits ranging from increased...
National Mental Health Commission
A guide to managing mental health in small businesses, during Covid-19 and beyond.
In this Q&A with Tim Hoopmann, small business owner and Beyond Blue speaker, we learn how to...
GP guidelines on the assessment and management of work-related mental health conditions aim to...
Not knowing where to begin is a barrier that prevents some organisations from taking action on...
Comcare and Beyond Blue demonstrate benefits of low intensity cognitive behavioural therapy at work.
“We called 52 industry leaders together at a national level in Sydney and essentially asked, are...
Psychological responses to work injury impact recovery. Australian researchers have interviewed...
Awareness of workplace injury stigma is low amongst Australian employers but the costs may be...
A guide to help insurance case managers, RTW Coordinators and rehabilitation providers motivate...