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Getting senior management on board is a prerequisite for achieving employee commitment to injury management systems. Then involving workers in psychosocial approaches is best encouraged by:

Ensuring that management's commitment to the program is visible. This could include senior leaders openly discussing the importance of mental health and wellbeing.

Educating workers about the health, social and family benefits of early RTW and good injury management. Include information about how psychosocial factors can impact recovery and RTW.

Involving employee representatives at the beginning of the process. Ensure these representatives — for example, trade union and health and safety representatives — understand the importance of psychosocial factors.

Asking employees and their representatives to help evaluate problems with the current system. Include questions about psychosocial barriers they've experienced or observed.

Involving employees and their representatives in working out solutions. This could include input on designing psychosocial screening processes or choosing interventions.