Generational gaps in the workplace can lead to hazardous misunderstandings and conflict. Employers need to ensure managers are flexible enough to accommodate younger workers' different approaches to work, a psychologist and employee assistance expert says.
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The ability to disclose health conditions and ask for help and support allow workers with chronic conditions to exert self-control at work, improving their performance, participation and wellbeing, according to European researchers.
A tribunal full bench has confirmed it is unnecessary to calculate an injured worker's whole person impairment before rejecting his bid to be treated as seriously injured on an interim basis.
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An employer that largely ignored the reasonably practicable and inexpensive control measures identified in 10 improvement notices has been convicted and fined $125,000, while two regulators have issued fatality alerts outlining height and post-bushfire safety measures.
Workplaces continue to react to musculoskeletal injuries rather than implementing primary prevention interventions, inhibiting the reduction of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, according to WorkSafe WA's human factors and ergonomics principal scientific officer.
Employers can prevent the "drift" into complacency and safety failures, which often follows a period of success, by applying the principles of "high reliability organisational theory" and seeking out "near-miss signals", according to one of three major reports on fatalities and safety laws in Queensland. It also recommends an alternative metric to the notoriously misleading LTIFR.
Advances in light technology mean inexpensive ceiling lights can slow the decline of alertness and mental performance during night work, potentially reducing the risk of accidents and injuries, European researchers say.
An engineering company and its director breached WHS laws in failing to create a computer model to predict the risk of an unplanned structural collapse, exposing at least two workers to the risk of death or serious injury, a court has ruled.
