The average office desk has four hundred times more bacteria than a toilet seat and is likely to house the common cold virus, making workers sick, an economic-impact report says.
Employers that introduce workplace mental health initiatives will receive an average return of $2.30 for every dollar they invest, according to a new report.
A Randstad employment analyst has highlighted the link between playing sport and improved worker health and productivity, while Victoria is encouraging city workers to get out of the office and participate in belly dancing classes or guided lunchtime walks.
Workplace interventions based on cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), and aimed at the entire workforce, significantly reduce depression among employees, according to Australian researchers.
Fifteen-minute "booster breaks" improve worker health and camaraderie, according to researchers, who explain how to get management buy-in for health promotion initiatives.
A Victorian employer was entitled to assume a worker was capable of performing a managerial role without sustaining a stress-related psych injury, the Court of Appeal has ruled in dismissing the worker's damages claim.
A deceased worker's cardiac arrest resulted from a shoulder dislocation he sustained at work 19 years earlier, the NSW WCC has ruled, in awarding his family $465,100 in lump sum death benefits.
