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A worker with anger management issues breached his safety obligations when he threatened to cut a co-worker's throat, but a number of factors meant the employment relationship remained viable, a commission has found.

An employer of 9,000 workers used annual health and wellbeing challenges to engage workers and both identify and notify those who might need support.

Large numbers of workers continue to suffer from serious and sometimes debilitating symptoms from previous COVID-19 infections, highlighting the need to identify those most at risk and implement special return-to-work plans that are regularly reviewed and amended, according to occupational health experts.

A tribunal has asked the Department of Veterans' Affairs to produce guidelines to prevent injured veterans being discriminated against based on their mental health treatment records, in upholding an ex-soldier's post-traumatic stress disorder claim.

Working during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic caused considerable distress to many workers, but some psychosocial working conditions actually improved, pointing to strategies employers can implement to help staff cope with high-stress situations, according to a longitudinal study.

A major employer has successfully argued, on appeal, that a similarly large company should be joined to a compensation claim from a psychologically injured worker, given he was the victim of two armed robberies with the second company.

Workers do not need to exhibit obvious signs of distress or vulnerability for the risk of psychological injury to be foreseeable and enliven the duty to take measures, an appeals court has found in a workload case examining an important High Court judgment.

As part of a major project aimed at helping employers redesign work to prevent psychological injuries - supported by three leading Australian universities - researchers have identified the main causes of the high psychological injury rate in the health sector.

A customs officer's exposure to books, films and video games depicting s-x, drug misuse, crime and other "abhorrent and revolting phenomena" was the cause of his post-traumatic stress disorder, and his compensation was halted prematurely, a tribunal has found.

• Workers resorting to alcohol in time of widespread stress;
  
• WHS projects tackle language barriers and burnout in NSW; and
  
• New WHS prosecutor appointed in Qld.