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.
Employers need to scrap the "one size fits all" approach to workplace health and safety issues and take gender differences into account, a new UK guide says.
Regulators in six jurisdictions have issued new alerts, reports and guidance, including a guide on work-related respiratory diseases, a report on exposure to diesel exhaust and a terrorism warning.
An expert in preventing workplace musculoskeletal disorders has advised against dumping job rotation practices based on the outcomes of recent studies.
An employer's job hardening program has helped workers who are at high risk of recurring injuries meet the physical demands of their roles, and potentially added more than five years to their working lives.
Proactively targeting psychosocial risk is a far more efficient workplace injury-prevention strategy than focusing on "downstream factors" like "emotional exhaustion once manifested", an Australian study has found.
Providing staff with peer support and mentoring increases engagement and improves safety, a mental health organisation has claimed on the back of a report raising concerns about declining support networks.
