Reshaping Risk: An Insurer’s Path to Injury Prevention | Mitolo
02/09/2025In this final instalment, we hear directly from Mitolo Farms, the South Australian agricultural business at the heart of this collaboration. Faced with high MSD claim rates and manual-intensive tasks, Mitolo embraced innovation through the EML Mutual Benefits Program Group. Health & Safety Manager Michael Brewer shares how the program led to immediate and lasting improvements including a 60% reduction in hazardous bends, no reportable injuries during the pilot, and significant insurance savings. With their full-scale rollout making wearable tech PPE mandatory, Mitolo is leading the way in agricultural workplace safety. This video is a testament to what’s possible when technology, coaching, and trust come together for employee wellbeing.
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This video series explores a ground-breaking workplace safety initiative born from a powerful cross-industry collaboration. Uniting an insurer, a rehabilitation provider, a risk advisory firm, a wearable tech company, and a forward-thinking employer.
At the heart of the story is Mitolo Farms, an Australian agricultural business grappling with high rates of musculoskeletal injuries (MSDs) among its workforce. Seeing both human and financial costs mounting, EML (Employers Mutual Limited) stepped in through their Mutual Benefits Program, issuing a call to action for scalable, preventative solutions.
Prudence Rehab responded with their IntelliCoach program, a behavioural coaching model enhanced by real-time wearable data. They partnered with Workplace Risk Technologies, who translated Mitolo’s risk profile into a strategic intervention and introduced the ideal tech partner, Modjoul.
Together, this coalition delivered an industry-first: a wearable safety pilot that achieved a 60% reduction in risky movements, zero lost-time injuries, and over $1.5 million in injury-related cost savings. Most importantly, it empowered workers to move better, feel better, and go home safer with the pilot now expanding across Mitolo’s 800+ staff as a mandatory PPE program.
In this series, each partner shares their unique role, challenges, and the measurable impact of their collaboration. Demonstrating what’s possible when data, technology, and human care align to solve one of the workplace’s most persistent risks.
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