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Workplace managers have been urged to look for mental health warning signs in workers and "build walking" into daily processes, with R U OK? Day and Walk to Work Day coming up.

The "action level" for workplace noise exposure and the benefits of hearing protective devices vary between individuals, while noise controls must mitigate the risk of exposure to ototoxic chemicals, according to a new guidance statement from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Suffering from chronic lower back pain can be as damaging to a worker's mental health as serious illnesses like cancer or heart disease, Canadian researchers have found.

• Increase uptake of active workstations with computer strategy; and
  
• National Safe Work Month around the corner.

• Union lowers exposure standard ahead of national overhaul; and
  
• Mental health funding highlights workplace perinatal risks.

Researchers have identified a shift-work pattern that does not create the alertness-related hazards usually associated with rotating schedules.

• Upstream WHS duties highlighted in Govt's asbestos response; and
  
• Fall victim dies as blitz focuses on height safety.

Researchers have identified a key component of a "mobile" weight loss program that improved the health of remote and lone workers.

Employers have been urged to expressly discourage workers from checking work emails in their own time, after researchers found that merely believing they need to affects the wellbeing of workers and their families.

• Start date locked in for OHS-style environment laws in Vic;
  
• Workplace fatality stats point to real people, SWA stresses;
  
• Half of fatal work falls are from low heights;
  
• Airbag and fire extinguisher alerts released; and
  
• Qld pumps another $1m into Mates in Construction.