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A worker who suffered a "devastating" stroke has been awarded workers' compensation, after a tribunal found her injury was caused by a "very high level of work-related stress".

An Australian study has found employees who work in a new "active design building" spend less time sitting and have less lower back pain, but are more concerned by noise levels.

Employers can create comprehensive pre-employment functional assessments, and minimise risk exposure, through five steps, Logic Health managing director Eoghan McKenna says.

Six cases of the incurable work-related disease black lung have now been confirmed in Queensland, and the State Government has announced a five-point plan to identify and prevent the condition.

• Shift workers warned against caffeine vicious circle; and
  
• Should the WHS Act be extended to Seacare?

• Australia crawls towards safer exposure standards;
  
• Regulator reveals strategies behind falling blood lead levels; and
  
• Fatality report and warnings released.

The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal has issued a remuneration order affecting supermarket chains and other employers, and noted it has received no evidence disputing the link between low driver pay and poor safety outcomes.

Safety professionals currently spend about 10 per cent of their time focusing on wellbeing and the rest on safety, but are expected to dedicate an equal time to both within the next decade, according to a safety recruitment expert.

An employer's workers' comp premium plummeted from more than $1.8 million in 2009-10 to just $600,000 in 2014-15, after it revamped its safety, risk and environmental management systems.

• Employers told to beware 12 Christmas myths;
  
• "Mindfulness" reduces employee stress; and
  
• Notorious electrical cables expected to break this summer.