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• Five performance principles should underpin safety systems;
  
• PTSD presumption applied to another WA sector; and
  
• Injury premium rate cut by more than 5% in WA.

A financial analyst who claimed she was required to work 16 hours per weekday, and up to eight hours every weekend, has failed to prove her employer breached the reasonable hours provisions of the Fair Work Act.

In this Q&A with OHS Alert, a workplace conflict resolution expert examines the factors that can lead to workers performing excessive hours, what employers can do to reduce the WHS risks associated with overwork, and how managers should deal with "workaholics".

A "formidable and direct" manager's email reprimanding an overworked worker for working from home was unreasonable and caused a compensable psychiatric injury, a tribunal has found.

An actor suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, from a particularly traumatic event that occurred while she was working with children in a hospital, has been blocked from bringing a general protections claim - involving alleged first-aid failings - because she had an anti-discrimination claim on foot at the same time.

Results from a new international collaborative study have prompted the authors to call for employment policies and safety laws that protect workers from widespread out-of-hours managerial intrusions, while new research by LinkedIn shows "loud leaving" supervisors can help prevent burnout.

An employer has been granted permission to contest a bullying claim, in a case that hinged on the exact date a manager "received" an email containing the claim forms.

An injured worker has lost his appeal for additional lump sum compensation payments, with a tribunal rejecting his claim he had a whole person impairment of 50 per cent from his work-related depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol abuse.

The start dates for a range of new WHS clauses have been postponed in Western Australia, while a Bill providing presumptive compensation to certain workers with PTSD has been reintroduced in South Australia.

• Right-to-disconnect Bill tackles "availability creep", poor health; and
  
• Anti-harassment protections extended to Defence workplaces.