The effect of stress on cortisol levels could explain the elevated risk of breast cancer among female white-collar workers, according to European researchers.
A large employer has used a major office fitout as an opportunity to provide sit-to-stand desks and other ergonomic tools to help its desk-bound workers sit correctly.
Organisation-wide communication and choosing initiatives based on identified risks are some of the nine key strategies identified in a major study on the implementation of a workplace mental health standard.
Big companies need to lead by example and improve safety standards and practices in partnership with "smaller players" like their contractors and suppliers, according to a panel of top business leaders.
Workers who are overweight and have high physical workloads are at a significantly high risk of exiting the workforce due to disability, highlighting the importance of interventions that target both issues, researchers say.
A global alliance including the ACTU is renewing its push for chrysotile asbestos to be added to the Rotterdam Convention's list of hazardous substances, and for the "dysfunctional" voting system to be overhauled.
A worker whose pregnancy went undiagnosed after six workplace medical examinations has been given the green light to sue the Commonwealth for damages, with an appeals court ruling that her claim isn't blocked by workers' comp laws.
In another study on the health impacts of the September 11 terrorist attacks, researchers have found a high prevalence of peripheral paresthesias - tingling or numbness in the extremities - in workers exposed to toxic dust.
A man's employment significantly contributed to him taking up smoking as an impressionable teenager and eventually dying of tongue cancer, a tribunal has ruled in awarding his widow workers' compensation.
