A worker who claimed his workplace had a flexible timekeeping culture created serious safety issues by regularly leaving without notifying designated staff, the Fair Work Commission has found in upholding his dismissal.
French Researchers have identified the type of metalworking fluid that is most likely to cause bladder cancer, while an Australian study has found no link between shift work and one of the world's most common cancers.
A repeat offender's work health and safety fine has been more than doubled on appeal, with a superior court finding the consequences of its breaches could have been catastrophic.
A psychologist has outlined 10 ways to get a better night's sleep, with sleep deprivation affecting two in five Australians, and causing hundreds of industrial and road deaths a year.
A leading occupational heat stress consultant has warned that workers in hot conditions are often told to drink tepid fluids to rehydrate, when they should be provided with more palatable chilled options encouraging consumption.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has upheld the rejection of an enterprise agreement providing for split shifts, while a union has announced a national day of action against such shift arrangements, claiming they cause fatigue and high injury rates.
A union has successfully opposed an aviation employer's proposed enterprise agreement, and applied to the Fair Work Commission to terminate its current EA, claiming it provides for unlawful split shifts that increase fatigue and injury rates.
An employer that failed to ensure employees wore hi-vis gear near forklifts in dark conditions has been fined $1.13 million, after a worker was killed.
Ninety per cent of shift workers are at high risk of accidents because they are regularly sleepy or fatigued during work, highlighting the need for smarter rosters and medical practitioners to do more to improve patients' sleep, according to a sleep and respiratory physician.
