An employee who took nearly a year off work, after he was injured on a workplace toilet, has been denied compensation for a psychological injury he sustained during the return-to-work process.
An effective health and wellbeing strategy includes four fundamental elements, including the key component of communication, which "fit together as pieces of a puzzle", according to a Bupa report.
Employers are being advised to establish a "workplace heat alert system", after Australian researchers found occupational heat illness claims increase by nearly 13 per cent for every one-degree rise in temperature during hot conditions.
Employers can prevent worker stress escalating and becoming chronic by training employees to avoid resorting to passive coping strategies, Italian researchers say.
Some of the most successful initiatives of a Tasmanian employer's health and wellbeing program - which has boosted productivity and worker wellbeing - cost little or nothing, according to its director.
A worker who suffered psychological injuries after being sacked because his weight posed a safety risk - to himself and other employees - was injured by reasonable management action, the Queensland IRC has ruled.
Western Australia's proposed mirror WHS laws for the resources sector should include a duty of care at worker accommodation facilities, suicide-specific provisions and a special Code of Practice that addresses rosters, fatigue and bullying, the parliamentary inquiry into FIFO arrangements has recommended.
Budget constraints are the biggest barrier to reducing workplace fatigue. To tackle this, managers must first understand how the issue affects their workforce and then convince their companies it needs to be addressed, webinar delegates have heard.
