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An exercise physiologist has outlined five steps to achieving "gold standard" workplace health and wellbeing or injury-prevention programs.

Employers can take five steps to improve workplace culture and reduce stress-related sick leave, according to an employee assistance program provider. Meanwhile, Queensland researchers have produced a series of free videos on improving worker health in the blue-collar sector.

In an Australian first, WorkSafe Victoria has declared rollover or crush-protection devices as "appropriate means" for reducing the risk of death from quad bike rollovers, meaning employers are more likely to be prosecuted for OHS breaches if an unprotected quad bike crashes.

• Series of construction deaths prompts warnings in NSW and Qld; and
  
• Wall-chasing workers exposed to numerous health hazards.

• National inquiry into black lung applauded; and
  
• Inquiry into unsafe building products holds hearing.

• Exposure incident and death prompt gas warning;
  
• New SWA chair appointed; and
  
• Did you miss our latest quarterly update?

• NSW amends heavy vehicle safety regulations;
  
• Qld launches truck-safety plan as NT drug rules commence;
  
• Qld's mirror marine safety laws get green light; and
  
• SA amends radiation regulations.

Employers need to "intensify" their strategies for reducing work-related stress, according to researchers, who have found a third of workers in a white-collar industry could be clinically depressed.

A study of a major lockout-tagout (LOTO) intervention in the US has found that businesses with a safety committee are in a much stronger position to reduce the risks associated with servicing and maintaining machines.

An Australian study has found employees who work in a new "active design building" spend less time sitting and have less lower back pain, but are more concerned by noise levels.