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Employers can reduce the severity and number of workplace injuries by adopting three strategies that usually apply to professional athletes, a people risk expert says.

A regulator has warned employers of the unique risks summer poses to their workers - and they're not all heat-related. Meanwhile, researchers have found 50 per cent of Australia's outdoor workers aren't provided with sunscreen.

A national employer has successfully spread its health and wellbeing messages to workers around the country through "fun and engaging" DVDs - and by providing toasters, its safety and wellbeing manager says.

Employers can "reap massive rewards" by prioritising targeting poor sleep over other issues, such as diet and exercise, in their wellbeing programs, a psychologist has told a Melbourne conference.

In this article, an HR director outlines how his company improved safety through consultation and leadership, and reveals three factors critical to its success.

A worker with "creeping trauma" has been awarded nearly $1 million in damages, after a court found his employer repeatedly failed to counsel him after he witnessed "gruesome" events and admitted he was struggling with work.

A commission deputy president has stressed that PPE isn't fail-safe, in finding a worker's bacterial infection arose from exposure to faeces and vomit at work.

Sleep troubles contribute to "numerous negative occupational outcomes", such as increased risk of injury and costly presenteeism, but few workplace wellbeing programs include sleep improvement initiatives, US researchers say.

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In a rare case involving the heart attack provisions of the NSW workers' comp Act, the WCC has found an employee's work trip created a "significantly greater risk" of him dying, and awarded his widow $510,800.