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Night-shift workers are at double the risk of developing metabolic syndrome, a precursor to diabetes and cardiovascular disease, highlighting the need for early screening for metabolic disturbances, according to researchers.

The common experience of regretting workplace actions or decisions can cause workers to develop insomnia and more serious ongoing health problems, European researchers warn in a study highlighting the need for workplace training on coping strategies.

Employers should implement specific risk mitigation strategies for workers simultaneously exposed to radiofrequency fields and other heat sources, like physical exertion or insulated PPE, according to new international guidelines.

• Worker exposed to toxic lead dust for three years;
  
• PCBU charged with WHS notification and preservation breaches; and
  
• "Visible" WHS enforcement flagged in Tas.

Global research has identified the most stressed workers in Australia, as well as six employment factors that can keep workers happy, healthy and resilient.

A workplace health intervention reduced participants' sitting time by nearly an hour a day and built "office comradery", but highlighted the challenge of improving the sedentary habits of employees working from home, an Australian study has found.

An appeals court has upheld two decisions denying death benefits to the husband of a worker who died from the effects of an asthma attack, after he failed to prove his wife's duties prevented her from accessing treatment in time.

A Canadian study of four hazardous substances used in a range of industries has identified a link between the materials and an aggressive form of early onset cancer.

• Taskforce formed to tackle deadly work disease;
  
• Diving safety guidance overhauled for first time in 15 years; and
  
• Alerts issued after deaths, other incidents in five jurisdictions.

Setting up a representative steering group is one of six steps employers should take to kick-start their stress-prevention interventions, according to the UK's Health and Safety Executive.