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Researchers have identified a string of occupations and chemical agents linked to a certain type of cancer, and warned that efforts to identify occupational causes of cancer in females are lagging, resulting in missed opportunities for prevention.

Workers with high "mental toughness" have lower perceived stress levels and a higher quality of life, and researchers have identified the specific techniques that help to build it.

More than one in two workers who were deemed, by a major study, to have poor posture while performing "pushing and pulling" tasks, developed severe lower back pain (LBP), highlighting the significant association between the two variables.

Shift work is linked to two serious health issues that shift workers are particularly unlikely to seek treatment for, and workplace awareness campaigns are not helping, researchers have found.

Nearly nine out of 10 workers in a notoriously dangerous industry have been exposed to a highly hazardous process, and many of them have a life-threatening disease, Australian researchers have found.

The mental health of employees cannot benefit from workplace mental health screening programs unless they are paired with access to post-screening interventions, according to research from the Black Dog Institute and other bodies.

The effectiveness of workplace safety management practices applied to chemicals requires urgent verification, according to preventive medicine researchers, who have found that working in premises where regulated chemicals are handled is associated with a high risk of developing cancer.

A near-decade-long study has found that workers with risk factors for cardiovascular disease can be up to 17 times more likely to develop carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, golfer's elbow or rotator cuff tendinitis.

A surge in back-to-back online meetings, and guilt over not appearing as "online", are unsafely affecting hybrid workers' self-regulated break behaviours, according to UK researchers, who call for leaders to show it's okay to be away from the desk.

Researchers have called for "crucial" preventative strategies for workers struggling with asthma, and have identified jobs and chemicals that escalate the risk of one of the most common cancers among male workers.