Swiss researchers have identified the types of workers at greatest risk of burnout, and those most resilient to high demands and other psychosocial risks.
To mark World Day for Safety and Health at Work, the International Labour Organisation has released a major report on the impact of workplace stress and how to tackle it.
Australian researchers have developed a five-week workplace intervention program that they say increases worker resilience and improves safety during organisational change.
The Federal Court has upheld an earlier decision to award workers' compensation to a Telstra employee whose stress injury arose from his belief that his workload was excessive.
Workplace early-intervention programs play a crucial role in preventing mental health problems escalating, and have helped one white-collar worker realise her back and neck pain was exacerbated by anxiety, according to occupational physician Dr Andrea James.
The family of a finance employee who died from cardiac arrest has been awarded death benefits, after a commission found the stress of being placed on a "watch list" in a "ruthless" industry contributed to his illness.
Employers need to "intensify" their strategies for reducing work-related stress, according to researchers, who have found a third of workers in a white-collar industry could be clinically depressed.
A worker who was retrenched, shortly after returning to work after a back injury, suffered stress and sadness from losing his job, but not a compensable psych injury, a commissioner has found.
