Browsing: Psychosocial issues | Page 11

• Recklessness fine followed by site-preservation conviction; and
  
• Refugee advocates concerned by developments in WHS cases.

A worker who claims she was bullied through her managers withholding resources like work cars from her, and excluding her from social events, has been denied stop-bullying orders.

The majority of businesses are impacted by mental health issues and what a compliant mental health strategy should look like remains murky, but employers are expected to apply the "highest level of controls" to psychosocial risks, according to a peak employer organisation.

With 73 per cent of people reporting higher stress and anxiety levels during menopause, becoming a menopause-friendly workplace through education, flexible workplace policies and open conversation will not only support women through this normal life stage, but help the employer meet its WHS duties, according to a commercial health expert.

• SWA updates WHS consultation checklist; and
  
• Worker quashes inappropriate-banter fine with CCTV evidence.

A worker's "cruel and menacing" comments about a co-worker, in a private Teams chat with a third colleague, posed a "serious and imminent risk to the safety of the co-worker", a commission has ruled.

A long-serving worker who experienced five years of bullying from a co-worker in the form of verbal threats and aggression has been awarded compensation for a psychological injury, after the bully was promoted to be his supervisor.

Workers at a "big four" firm have experienced bullying normalised as performance management, and "insane pressure to churn work" - factors causing harm to many of them, an Elizabeth Broderick review of the firm has found.

• High Court's urination ruling provides "comfort" to multiple sectors; and
  
• Executives reminded of harassment-reporting duties with new projects.

• SWA outlines work-from-home duties in new resources;
  
• Model WHS amendments for silica applied in SA; and
  
• Paid FDV leave extended to many workers.