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Safe Work Week events underway; SWA releases fatality report, serious-claim fact sheets and nanomaterial documents; and NSW employers given three months to improve their RTW programs.

Two separate psychological injury claims against the Australian Taxation Office have been dismissed, after the AAT found the workers' injuries arose from reasonable administrative action.

NSW employers are being encouraged, by one of three new fact sheets on the recent workers' compensation overhaul, to look at ways to get injured employees back to work quicker. Also in this article, WorkCover is hosting a webinar on workplace falls tomorrow.

Changes to the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Act aim to protect workers from bullying; Finalists for Q-COMP Return to Work Awards announced; and Essential safety news from around Australia.

A Queensland police officer, who disappeared after taking stress leave, had been provided with adequate employer support and a "well thought out" return-to-work program, a coronial inquest has found.

The Commonwealth SRC Act could be amended to ensure informal counselling - and other supervisory actions - aren't excluded from the definition of "administrative action" in workers' compensation disputes, according to a paper released for public comment.

A study of nearly 368,000 workers has found that injured workers are 43 per cent more likely to be treated for depression than their non-injured counterparts.

Dozens of Australian employers are tackling worker absences through KPIs and wellbeing programs, according to Direct Health Solutions, whose latest survey has found the telecommunications and utilities sector has the highest sickies rate.

An OHS lawyer has warned that it's "very easy to get it wrong" when it comes to managing ill or injured workers, and outlined eight points employers should consider when taking on the task.

SA employers given choice of scheme agents under plan to improve RTW rates; and Essential safety news from around Australia.