This session facilitated discussions on the importance of a safe and healthy workplace, emphasising the need for work to be mentally healthy. The financial and wellbeing costs of work-related mental health conditions are escalating rapidly and causing unsustainable impacts on productivity, competitiveness, and worker health and safety. An estimated 12 billion working days are lost each year due to depression and anxiety resulting in US$ 1 trillion per year in lost productivity globally.

Panellists demonstrated the need for multi-sector collaboration to develop and implement evidence-based innovations that aim to prevent injury and improve mental health and productivity in a legal, ethical and responsible way.