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Achieving return on investment in workplace mental health initiatives hinges both on implementing programs and proactively ensuring employees participate in them, according to a MinterEllison report.

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A senior ASIC lawyer has been awarded workers' compensation for epilepsy triggered by "sustained tension" and "inappropriate pressure" from managers.

A worker has been awarded more than $450,000 in damages, in another PTSD case involving an assault by a client with a well-known history of violence.

An employer breached its duty of care in failing to prevent a worker, who was on call 24 hours a day, from working up to 70 hours a week and developing a psychiatric injury, the Victorian Supreme Court has found.

Stressed workers are more like to make workers' compensation claims, with the frequency and cost of claims influenced by the type of stress experienced, a major study has found.

A law firm has called for a special code of practice to protect workers with mental health conditions from intrusive insurance surveillance. Meanwhile, another firm has warned that some workplace psychological health "solutions" can cause more harm than good.

A recent $436,000 injury damages case shows how important it is for employers to proactively look for and deal with signs of worker distress, employment and WHS lawyer Donna Trembath says in this Q&A with OHS Alert.

An employer breached its duty of care to a worker in encouraging her to take on a client with a known history of substance abuse and violent behaviour, who s-xually assaulted her, a superior court has found.

A Qantas employee falsely accused of s-xual assault and jailed in the US has been awarded compensation for PTSD on appeal, in the second case in three months involving a tribunal's misapplication of the High Court "interval" test.