A workplace health intervention reduced participants' sitting time by nearly an hour a day and built "office comradery", but highlighted the challenge of improving the sedentary habits of employees working from home, an Australian study has found.
The wishes of a killed worker's family underpinned a safety regulator's decision to accept a $968,000 enforceable undertaking (EU) in lieu of a category 2 WHS prosecution, the regulator's chief executive has told OHS Alert.
An employer has successfully argued that its field-based employees, who are all required to hold a first-aid certificate, are expected to use those skills if needed without attracting the allowance that "appointed" first aiders are entitled to.
In a decision examining when employees working from home can be considered to be in the course of their employment, a commission president has quashed an arbitrator's finding that a worker wasn't working when she was killed by her partner.
FIFO workers who fear being stigmatised for having mental health problems are up to 24 times more likely than others to experience high psychological distress, according to a major study of Australian remote mining and construction workers.
A full Supreme Court has rejected claims that a workers' comp claimant was required to prove her employment exposed her to a "greater risk" of being bitten by a diseased mosquito than at her suburban home.
The Greens have called for a WHS regulator to reveal how many abandoned cases are under review, after it re-classified a nurse's murder as work-related and apologised to her family.
A fly-in-fly-out worker was complying with his duty to take steps to prevent the effects of fatigue and safely transition from night to day shifts when he injured his knee playing cricket, a tribunal has found.
An employer failed to implement the emergency rescue provisions of a Code of Practice because it mistakenly believed they referred to medical evacuation procedures, a coronial inquest into a worker's death has heard.
