A firefighter with cancer is covered by presumptive workers' comp laws despite actively firefighting for less than half of the qualifying period, a commissioner has found.
PricewaterhouseCoopers will depart from a traditional office environment, and create a workplace that encourages workers to get up from their desks and move around, at its new Sydney headquarters.
Women who work excessive hours are significantly more likely to develop four types of chronic diseases, including heart disease, a major study has found.
The incident-notification provisions of the WHS Act must be amended to ensure Comcare investigates all deaths and other serious incidents in immigration detention facilities, according to the Australian Lawyers Alliance.
Being denied the opportunity to mentally and physically unwind after a stressful task can cause workers psychological distress, but brief at-work recovery activities mitigate the problem, according to a new study.
A workplace defibrillator can increase the chances of an employee surviving sudden cardiac arrest from as little as two per cent to 70 per cent, according to a St John Ambulance Victoria training provider.
Employers are being warned against dropping workplace pre-start stretching programs, after some recent negative research on the issue. When performed correctly and regularly, stretching can have significant long-term benefits for workers and employers, an exercise physiologist says.
Workers in a number of natural-resource industries are at increased risk of prostate cancer, Canadian researchers have found. Meanwhile, a Spanish study has found that workers in one industry are six times more likely than others to die of bladder cancer.
