Employers will never succeed in reducing stress among their workforce while their managers are perceived as stressed or overworked, a conference heard today.
Claims frequency and outcomes are broadly similar across both self-insured and scheme-insured employers, but injured workers are more satisfied under a scheme, according to a Victorian Workcover Authority review.
A panel of legal experts has been appointed to advise the NSW Government on workplace fatalities and consider the best ways to strengthen the State's OHS laws.
Following an administrative bungle that could result in Gretley Colliery disaster prosecution being dismissed, the Miners Union is considering calling a national strike over safety standards in the industry.
