Australian researchers have found that while medical practitioners are regularly exposed to aggression from "external sources", bullying or abuse from co-workers has the greatest impact on their health and job satisfaction.
Advances in predictive analytics will make it easier for employers to foresee and prevent safety incidents, but low-probability disasters such as oil rig failures are likely to "defy prediction", according to a US expert on occupational medicine.
An employer that denied a truck driver procedural fairness when it sacked him for repeatedly speeding was a large enough company to have developed proper policies for dismissing employees, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A new European report has outlined how employers in a highly hazardous industry have reduced workers' exposure to violence, infectious diseases and other risks.
The Fair Work Commission has received far fewer applications than expected under its new anti-bullying jurisdiction, but it has received more than 100,000 enquiries on the issue, and the application rate is gradually increasing, according to its annual report.
A PCBU's incident-response plan should include processes for contacting safety regulators and the media, and establishing legal professional privilege, according to an employment and safety lawyer.
In contrast to two recent cases involving workers who were sacked for swearing, the Fair Work Commission has ruled that a worker who verbally abused a colleague following a forklift near-miss was unfairly dismissed.
An employer has reduced staff turnover to nearly zero by providing workers with weekly massages, personal training and other perks to "take the stress out of the day", according to its business development manager.
