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Global software company, Salesforce, used an employee wellbeing approach based on the core values of trust and science-driven initiatives to successfully support its staff right through the pandemic, says its HR business partner, Anne Tosky.

Organisational trauma can result from relatively minor workplace changes, like staff changes and moving office, and employers should ensure their workforce is equipped to deal with the issue when it arises, a conference has heard.

A worker's social wellbeing is a major driver of their overall health, and employers will do well not to underestimate or under-resource this aspect of the employee experience, a senior Cisco manager has told a conference.

• Employers fined for creating electrocution and forklift risks; and
  
• Guide to safe computer workstation set-ups released.

• Beware new-year fatigue with COVID-forced work changes;
  
• Mask rules eased in another jurisdiction, WHS advice issued; and
  
• RPE guidance published after 162 WHS notices issued.

Standing, treadmill and cycling desks improve workers' cognitive performance, and can counteract the increase in sedentary behaviour associated with pandemic-forced working-from-home arrangements, Australian researchers say.

Bringing workers back to the workplace is better served with organisational policies "more biased towards protection and protecting the health and safety" of people than personal freedom, a CEO has told a forum on new workplace "norms".

With the Omicron outbreak likely to delay return-to-office plans for many businesses around Australia, employers should heed the findings of a new study on the physical toll that working from home can have on workers' bodies, and the need for preventive action.

A tribunal has highlighted an employer's efforts to accommodate a worker's ergonomic concerns and make workplace adjustments for him based on medical recommendations, in rejecting his claim that data entry work caused compensable "writer's cramp" and carpal tunnel syndrome.

A tribunal has rejected a worker's keyboard-related occupational overuse injury claim, and her bid for household services, after finding it is beneficial for her to undertake some of her own housework.