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"Fixing" the individual worker is only half the battle of dealing with work-related stress injuries, a senior scientific officer and expert in human factors and ergonomics has told a Western Australian conference today.

A tribunal has "undercut" a regulator's decision to accept liability for a worker's major depressive order arising from the aggravation of her pain syndrome.

Adversarial workers' comp schemes must be overhauled to ensure emergency services workers with PTSD don't have to battle insurers and non-independent doctors when they're at their most unwell, a paramedics union says.

Workers who don't have time to eat or keep hydrated have poor concentration and lack energy, but employers can help them improve their diet and manage pressure through role modelling, according to a dietitian.

To get the most out of an employee assistance program, employers need to understand what their provider actually offers and nominate a workplace "EAP champion", according to the president of the Employee Assistance Professional Association of Australasia.

A worker was unfairly dismissed for failing a random alcohol test because his employer failed to resolve earlier work issues, which, after a chance encounter, resulted in him feeling anxious and consuming too much alcohol, a commission has found.

Australian researchers have identified five "classes" of workplace bullying experiences that affect absenteeism, including subtle but pervasive forms of negative behaviour, and explained how employers can prevent conflict from escalating.

A worker who accused his managers of engaging in a "witch hunt" on him has been denied compensation for a psychiatric injury, after a commission found he wrongly perceived reasonable supervision as micromanagement.

A manager bullied his subordinates by humiliating them when they made errors or deviated from his interpretation of company practices, a commissioner has found, in stressing that a supervisory role does not involve teaching employees "a lesson".

A former company director, who started self-medicating with alcohol to deal with the stress of employees "rorting" the workers' comp system, has been awarded compensation for brain damage and other injuries.