Workers who receive peer support from trained colleagues immediately after a traumatic occupational accident are less likely to take extended sick leave, researchers have found.
An employer with a "no-lift" manual handling policy, and a safety manager who helped eliminate employee injuries, are among the 14 winners of this year's NSW and Western Australian workplace safety awards.
Employers will be required to notify safety inspectors every time dust concentrations in mines exceed prescribed limits, under new anti-black lung regulations commencing in Queensland in January.
Workers with physically active jobs are as prone to cardiovascular disease as the general public, according to researchers, who suggest an alternative to weight-loss targets for overweight employees.
Safe occupational exposure limits for carcinogenic diesel motor exhaust are far lower than common exposures, and can't be achieved by "older technology" diesel engines, a European quantitative risk assessment has found.
Australian employers are being urged to review their social media policies for customer feedback, after a Canadian judge found the Toronto Transit Commission failed to protect employees from abusive tweets.
The Cancer Council is using National Safe Work Month to warn of the risks associated with diesel-fuelled machinery, after finding exposure to diesel fumes is Australia's second-most prevalent work-related cancer-causing agent.
A major employer has reduced its days lost to ergonomic injuries from about 200 per year to just two, as well as lowering its workers' comp premiums, since introducing its "ergonomic champions" program.
