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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.

• OHS Code remade pending review;
  
• Is your cold workplace too cold? and
  
• Exercise self-efficacy creates virtuous health promotion circle.

• NSW launches WHS mentor program and issues alerts;
  
• SWA releases soaring fatality toll and workers' comp stats; and
  
• Many work structures not built for conditions, DMP warns.

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.

More than 100 doctors are currently undergoing registrarships as specialist occupational physicians in Australia, and will bring the age profile of the profession back into balance, according to the president of Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Reduced cart mass, flexible handle height and worker training are key factors in minimising musculoskeletal injuries from pushing or pulling loaded carts or trolleys, according to a global study.

• Could workplace diesel exhaust be more hazardous than we think?
  
• Chain-of-responsibility sessions coming to four states; and
  
• Ministers appointed to oversee WHS harmonisation in WA.

A Safe Work Australia report has outlined three categories of WHS key performance indicators that support officers' due diligence obligations, and highlighted the importance of tailoring KPIs to organisational needs.

Epidemiologist Professor Tim Driscoll has outlined the major current and emerging workplace health and safety issues for Australia and other Oceanian nations, in an Oxford University journal.

An ergonomist has urged employers to increase their focus on workstation comfort and look beyond Australian Standards when purchasing furniture.