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Workplace health interventions delivered by peers can be just as effective as those run by professionals and ensure long-term results, according to a leading health promotions academic.

A worker has been denied workers' compensation for heart, lung and kidney failure arising from a work-related knee injury, after a tribunal found the "gross failures" of his doctors broke the chain of causation between his work injury and subsequent incapacity.

Encouraging workers to take advantage of flexible work arrangements and regularly reviewing workloads have helped a new company control worker stress and improve productivity, its director says.

An employer has successfully appealed a decision awarding compensation to a worker who allegedly contracted whooping cough at work, before suffering a related incapacitating stroke.

• Lack of acclimatisation increases heat risks;
  
• Pre-Christmas period accounts for 25% of workplace deaths;
  
• New safety rules gazetted and made in WA and Qld; and
  
• "Ritualize" available in Tas from Monday.

In a study that could have ramifications for industries involving bulk material handling or diesel equipment, researchers have identified a "robust association" between exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM) and fertility problems in men.

Workers are more likely to overcome their fear of and control musculoskeletal pain from taking supervised group exercise classes at work than working out alone at home, Danish researchers have found.

The financial benefits of health and safety interventions provide an important incentive to implement them, but a concerning lack of quality data on these benefits could be discouraging employers from taking steps to improve worker health and wellbeing, a review has found.

A worker's refusal to provide her employer with medical information from her drunken visit to a hospital emergency room was not a valid reason to terminate her employment, a commission has found.

Contacting workers with psychological injuries in the days after they make a workers' comp claim can speed up their return to work, one of three new reports from Safe Work Australia shows.