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Employment Minister Eric Abetz has appointed prominent safety lawyer Barry Sherriff as the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission's new chair and has also installed a new CEO at Comcare from 23 August.

Employers facing redundancy processes should consider ways to build employees' social support, to reduce the adverse mental health impacts of sudden job loss, according to Australian researchers.

Employers are being encouraged to host morning teas, yoga classes, and trivia competitions to reduce stress as part of Lifeline Australia's Stress Down Day this week.

In a decision that is likely to lead to far more generous payouts for victims of workplace s-xual harassment, a former Oracle employee's damages for psychological injuries have been increased by $112,000.

Work health and safety interventions should focus on either physical or psychological health, depending on how old the targeted workers are, a new Australian report says.

Being hit by falling objects continues to be one of the leading causes of work-related deaths in Australia, according to a major report, which has prompted questions over Western Australia's increasing fatality rate.

The Fair Work Commission has ruled in favour of an injured worker who was sacked for allegedly lying to his employer and WorkCover about his medical restrictions.

Proposed and actual major changes to the harmonised WHS Acts, as well as surprising developments in the non-harmonised states, dominated OHS Alert's pages in the second quarter of 2014. Check out this review of all the most important safety and workers' compensation news from the three months to 30 June.

Another jurisdiction conducting double WHS review; Regulator targeting concrete companies as heavy vehicle trauma report released; Safety incidents cause one farm death per week; and Alerts and other safety news issued in four jurisdictions.

UK researchers have found that workers with epilepsy or diabetes are no more likely than others to sustain workplace injuries, and warned that employers could be applying "unwarranted limitations" on them.