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With recent disasters, ranging from floods to the COVID-19 pandemic, placing extreme mental health demands on business owners and workers, employers have been reminded of the need to create healthy workplaces "from the top", on the release of a free resource.

Regularly missing scheduled breaks and working in small wards have emerged as surprising predictors of stress and fatigue in healthcare workers, a study has found, with the authors suggesting more specific management training programs as interventions.

The arts sector is comprised of more workers than the law enforcement and firefighting sectors combined, but WHS in the arts is often overlooked due to work conditions being poorly understood, resulting in poor safety outcomes, an occupational medicine academic has warned.

Artificial intelligence-based worker management systems are increasingly being integrated into workplaces, but experts have warned that while there are benefits to these novel systems, they come with physical and psychological safety risks, including excessive monitoring, which require specific mitigation strategies.

The work and lifestyle behaviours of Australia's fly-in-fly-out workers have been linked to high psychological distress levels and risky health behaviours, a study has found, with the researchers suggesting mental health interventions and awareness campaigns as solutions to poor worker health.

Australia is expected to see a surge in flu, respiratory syncytial virus and COVID-19 cases over the next few weeks, and hygiene services experts have called for businesses to protect themselves and their employees by creating safer and more hygienic work environments.

The COVID-19 support initiatives an Australian health service implemented for its workers had an overwhelming positive impact on wellbeing, with more than three-quarters reporting improvements to their mental health and ability to cope with pandemic-related stress and anxiety, a study has found.

A tribunal has set aside the decision to reject a depression claim from a man who was s-xually assaulted at work as a teenager, after finding the medical evidence relied on to block the claim failed to consider all the trauma the Navy veteran had experienced.

With a horror cold and flu season upon us, and COVID-19 making its rounds again, Australian workplaces have experienced an unparalleled rise in sick leave. Investing in wellbeing-focused initiatives aimed at reducing sickness is one-way employers can lessen the pressure of absenteeism, says a leading business expert.

A commission president has rejected an appeal from Bunnings Group Ltd, upholding the finding that it unreasonably pressured a worker to take a transfer and aggravated her psychological conditions following the death of her mother and cousin.