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Workers are more likely to believe they're being bullied when they're under stress, but motivating factors like good salary, plentiful resources and constructive feedback can alleviate that stress, researchers have found.

Being denied the opportunity to mentally and physically unwind after a stressful task can cause workers psychological distress, but brief at-work recovery activities mitigate the problem, according to a new study.

An employer has been found vicariously liable for a manager bullying and overworking an employee, and ordered to pay the employee $436,000 in damages for a psychiatric injury.

Many safety professionals are "obsessed with disasters" and fail to learn from what "went right" in near misses, according to leading safety lawyer Michael Tooma. He also warns that few employers are taking adequate steps to prevent psychological harm.

An employer was entitled to introduce KPIs to monitor a worker's performance just weeks after he returned to work from three months' sick leave, a tribunal has found in rejecting the man's stress claim.

• Safety controls encouraged for Fatality Free Friday;
  
• Vic initiatives tackle bullying and PTSD; and
  
• New safety laws to protect police and others in NT.

Psychological distress among employees and managers costs the Australian coal mining industry nearly 10 per cent of its pre-tax operating profit, but intervention programs are cost-effective, a unique study has found.

A workers' comp case officer has been awarded weekly payments for a psychological injury, despite deliberately concealing her multiple non-work-related stressors, including a police investigation into her involvement in the fatality that led to the jailing of Peter Colbert.

Employers have been warned against rewarding workaholic behaviour, after a study found that workaholics are more likely to suffer depression and perform poorly.

A worker who became overwhelmed by her emergency-response role and increased responsibilities under workplace health and safety laws has been awarded compensation for a psychiatric injury.