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A four-month corporate pedometer challenge halved cases of excessive daytime sleepiness among participant workers, Australian researchers have found.

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Australian researchers have warned that long working hours contribute to poor mental health and need to be regulated, but the Productivity Commission's draft workplace relations report, released yesterday, found that current restrictions are adequate.

The NSW workers' compensation scheme is being overhauled to provide safe employers with premium discounts of up to 20 per cent, restore a number of worker benefits that were scrapped in 2012, speed up the dust diseases claim process, and replace WorkCover with three separate agencies.

The authors of a $1.3 million study on quad bike stability have rejected "active riding" as a reliable rollover-prevention strategy, and found that no tested quads achieved better than three out of five stars under a proposed safety-rating system. Meanwhile, the Queensland Coroner has completed phase two of an inquest into nine quad bike fatalities.

The most popular initiative of a construction giant's successful health and wellbeing program is one that educates workers on financial issues, a conference has heard.

Measuring workplace absences not only informs strategies to prevent them, but is one of many ways employers can determine their return on investment in health and wellbeing, according to a people risk expert.

Labour-hire firms are being advised never to rely solely on a host organisation's risk assessments, while host PCBUs are being encouraged to openly communicate and consult with labour-hire firms.

The death of a worker who accidentally overdosed on painkillers has prompted a coroner to recommend employers provide better support to employees with health problems.

An employer's award-winning technology solution, introduced to improve confined-space safety, has increased productivity and reduced costs, and can be applied to a variety of work types, a WHSE manager says.