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The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT) has decided to include the pay rates from a KPMG cost model in its new draft order, after employer groups that opposed the model failed to back up their claims of excessive costs with any data.

A tribunal has criticised an employer for failing to meet with a psychologically injured worker to resolve the management issues that contributed to his condition and help him return him to work.

Allowing HSRs to step away from their day-to-day work and perform safety duties only, for up to eight hours a month, has been fundamental to an employer's award-winning safety culture, its OHS manager says.

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Employers should target vascular risk factors, such as high blood pressure and smoking, to reduce the high risk of stroke among employees who work long hours, according to an international study of more than 600,000 workers.

Telstra has introduced "more mature" health and safety metrics that provide more comprehensive data than lost-time injury frequency rates, and help it respond quickly to incidents, according to its latest sustainability report.

Employers can combat the growing phenomenon of work-related cyberbullying by training workers to be more optimistic and resilient, as well as training them in email etiquette, Australian researchers say.

In this article, an organisational psychologist explains how a supervisor trained in psychological warning signs potentially saved a worker's life by encouraging him to access his employee assistance program.

An employer has halved its lost-time claims since it established a special injury management team two years ago, its return-to-work coordinator says.

Employers should introduce special policies, and provide workers with access to training, counselling and treatment, to tackle the "extremely high costs" of drug and alcohol-related absenteeism, Australian researchers have recommended.