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Employers are being reminded, on World Mental Health Day today, that they will receive an average return of $2.30 for every dollar they invest in workplace mental health initiatives, while those that do nothing are likely to have higher absence and claims rates.
A new Safe Work Australia report has found that regulators conducted 135,000 workplace visits and handed out nearly 47,000 notices in 2012-13, but the number of reactive visits is decreasing in some jurisdictions.
An employer that claimed an employee's fatal cardiac arrhythmia could not have been caused by work stress - because Australian workers would be "dropping down like flies" if work-related anxiety caused sudden death - has been ordered to compensate the man's family.
Workplace fatality rate creeping up in NSW; Presumptive cancer comp laws to cover all WA firefighters; and Queensland launches bullying and harassment review.
Victorian employers have been fined nearly $500,000 after an excavator operator was killed in a landslide, and other incidents, while a man has been fined for obstructing safety inspectors.
An employer has been ordered to pay nearly $700,000 in damages to a contract driver who injured his back while unloading jammed pallets from a truck, after a judge found the man was unlikely to complain about poorly packed loads for fear of losing work.
A full Federal Court has found that an injured worker should be paid the equivalent of just 12 hours of pay per week in compensation, in overturning an earlier decision to base her "normal weekly earnings" on the hours she worked before a 2008 car accident.
