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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.

Employers have been urged to consider the multiplicative effects that exposure to multiple occupational hazards - ranging from night work and noise to solvents and heavy metals - have on the development of one of the world's most common serious health conditions, with a unique study finding the risks arise even with low-level exposures.

Workers are at high risk of developing long-term mental health problems like post-traumatic stress disorder and depression when exposed to trauma, morally injurious events and institutional betrayal, which often involves organisational inaction, a study has found.

The authors of an Australian study say they have added to "reassuring" findings around the possible cancer links to highly prevalent occupational exposures to electrical fields and the use of electrical appliances.