The link between obesity and work absences is well established, but a German study has found lost-productivity costs associated with obesity are "formidable", with obese employees taking 88 per cent more sick days than "normal-weight" workers.
Employers should ensure any PPE they buy is certified under Australian Standards, but this isn't as straightforward as it seems, says SAI Global's health and safety product services team leader.
Employers are being urged to look beyond "soft" risk management barriers to prevent the interaction of light vehicles and heavy machinery at worksites, after a mine worker's ute was crushed by a 100-tonne dozer.
Workers who apply to the Fair Work Commission for a stop-bullying order cannot claim they were "bullied at work" prior to 1 January 2014, because the anti-bullying laws didn't apply at the time, the Australian Industry Group will argue in a test case today.
Employers aren't required to conduct weekly physical inspections of non-slip strips on stairs, the Western Australian Court of Appeal has ruled in rejecting an injured worker's damages claim.
The NSW WCC has found that workplace conflict didn't cause a worker's psychological injury, and that the timeframe for an investigation into his alleged misconduct was reasonable.
A worker who lives in Queensland and was injured while working in Western Australia for a South Australia-based employer should be compensated under the South Australian workers' comp scheme, a judge has ruled in a state-of-connection dispute.
Introducing a new workplace health and wellbeing project has proved tougher than expected for an ACT employer, but workers are starting to think and talk more about their health, according to co-owner Nicole Leishman.
A NSW employer that failed to ensure structural engineers complied with the relevant OHS Regulations and Standards when they inspected its Ferris wheel has been fined in the IRC, after a gondola fell four metres from the ride and seriously injured three teenage passengers.
