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The "power of silence" is vital to conversations around mental health at work, which shouldn't be about telling workers that "it's all going to get better", but helping them build agency to take the next steps in seeking help, a senior workplace counsellor says.

An injured worker has failed, in a superior court, to overturn a medical panel decision that she has a whole person impairment of zero per cent. She contended it couldn't be zero because her scans showed "some sort of pathology".

A manager's evidence on the support a worker received has helped establish a reasonably arguable case against the worker's claim that alleged bullying and work stress caused her psychological condition.

This Thursday is national R U OK? Day, but workers are being urged to "connect with their colleagues and let them know they're here to hear them, every day of the year".

A major employer should consider introducing a "points system" for workers' traumatic exposures, and prescribing welfare measures for workers under scrutiny to avoid "idiosyncratic or poor exercise of discretion", a coronial inquest into the suicide deaths of four policemen has recommended.

A worker's police records "have a real possibility of shedding light" on workplace events he claimed aggravated his psychological injury, a tribunal has found in quashing his objection to his employer being granted access to the records.

Businesses and public authorities covered by the Commonwealth jurisdiction's WHS laws could soon face the toughest WHS penalties in the country, under a major amendment Bill that will also introduce presumptive workers' compensation for post-traumatic stress disorder.

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A major employer has failed to block a worker from pursuing compensation for conditions allegedly linked to a workplace incident that occurred 24 years ago, with a tribunal describing the man's new evidence as "very persuasive".

Complying with a business's WHS duties includes ensuring workers working from home "are not forgotten" under the assumption they will "reach out if they need anything", a senior employment and safety lawyer has told a workplace mental wellbeing webinar.