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Unsafe job demands are the most common psychosocial hazards in Australian workplaces, and employers must explore multiple measures to safeguard against the risk to a reasonably practicable extent, a Comcare director says.

An increasingly diverse and multigenerational workforce, and socioeconomic changes since the global COVID-19 pandemic, mean "monolithic" mental health strategies "just won't cut it anymore", the CEO of Beyond Blue says.

In an important workers' compensation test case, a tribunal has stressed that firefighters can be exposed to carcinogens in multiple circumstances, and found a former firefighter with prostate cancer is protected by presumptive provisions.

New evidence suggests workplace managers can do a better job at screening workers for mental health issues than traditional screening tools, which have questionable benefits for mental health, according to trauma experts from the UK and Australia.

An employer is creating mutually respectful relationships between workers and clients with initiatives such as a code of conduct for the latter, to curb the psychological harm from escalating customer aggression, its general manager of people and culture says.

Combined individual- and organisation-level interventions are the most effective strategies to reduce exhaustion and occupational burnout, a new study shows.

Work acceleration and cognitive dissonance are some of the workplace health and safety challenges that need to be managed when using artificial intelligence in the workplace, a future of work academic says.

With National Safe Work Month starting this week, employers are being urged to host SafeTea chats, focus on issues like mental health and workloads, and provide safer workplaces for women. Employers have also been warned to properly maintain their defibrillators.

A commission has upheld the dismissal of a worker for taking medicinal cannabis on his days off, finding his conduct was compounded by his failure to update his employer on his changing medicinal regime.

Employers have been urged to manage rosters and workloads in ways that reduce the risk of fatigue, after a second organisation was convicted over the car-crash death of a worker who had worked for 17 hours straight.