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Employers can create comprehensive pre-employment functional assessments, and minimise risk exposure, through five steps, Logic Health managing director Eoghan McKenna says.

The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal has issued a remuneration order affecting supermarket chains and other employers, and noted it has received no evidence disputing the link between low driver pay and poor safety outcomes.

An employer's workers' comp premium plummeted from more than $1.8 million in 2009-10 to just $600,000 in 2014-15, after it revamped its safety, risk and environmental management systems.

• Employers told to beware 12 Christmas myths;
  
• "Mindfulness" reduces employee stress; and
  
• Notorious electrical cables expected to break this summer.

Employers should introduce mandatory return-to-work plans for those who take sick leave for a mental illness, a new report recommends, after finding suitable sickness absence and return-to-work management for Australian workers is "sorely lacking".

An award-winning employer improved safety, compliance and productivity across its various construction sites by "McDonaldsing" its safety system, its director says.

Employers are being urged to "take the moral choice" of reducing job demands or at least increasing resources, after a national survey of school principals showed the "sheer quantity" of work is their greatest source of stress.

With the end of the work year and its associated events fast approaching, law firms are reminding employers of simple steps they can take to ensure celebrations are both enjoyable and safe. Meanwhile, regulators are urging construction companies to secure their sites.

A new action plan, prompted by widespread reports of discrimination, bullying and s-xual harassment by surgeons, has outlined strategies for transforming workplace culture.

• Stop-bullying orders confirmed;
  
• NTC proposes dangerous goods changes;
  
• More regulators warn of pre-Christmas safety risks; and
  
• Victoria commits $900k to workplace anti-violence plan.