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Older workers report higher stress levels than their younger colleagues, and are more likely to experience musculoskeletal pain, when the number of days they spend working from home exceeds their preferences, an Australian study has found.

In this major must-read report, OHS Alert examines all the key workplace health and safety and workers' compensation developments from the second quarter of 2023, including a wide range of actual and proposed WHS amendments, a string of high-profile safety prosecutions, and concerns around surging burnout rates.

Researchers have identified a string of occupations and chemical agents linked to a certain type of cancer, and warned that efforts to identify occupational causes of cancer in females are lagging, resulting in missed opportunities for prevention.

Workers with high "mental toughness" have lower perceived stress levels and a higher quality of life, and researchers have identified the specific techniques that help to build it.

Ambulance Tasmania's "dysfunctional" manager-to-staff ratio contributed to its "gross failure" to hold a paramedic to account for his erratic behaviour or support his welfare, immediately before his death, an inquest has found.

Every second healthcare and social assistance worker who is grappling with poorly-designed workplaces is also experiencing high levels of burnout, according to a new report.

Employers have been warned to avoid the "fire hose trap" of safety messaging, with a trends report identifying a surge in safety-related critical incidents, including workplace incidents where police are called.

Shift work is linked to two serious health issues that shift workers are particularly unlikely to seek treatment for, and workplace awareness campaigns are not helping, researchers have found.

Nearly nine out of 10 workers in a notoriously dangerous industry have been exposed to a highly hazardous process, and many of them have a life-threatening disease, Australian researchers have found.

A regulator could be empowered to overturn the decisions of companies self-insured against workplace injuries, with the Victorian Ombudsman finding the system is "patchy and unequal", and highlighting a case where a worker who was entitled to $75,000 was offered a $2,000 settlement.