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.
The Ai Group has, in a submission to an inquiry into the illegal drug ice, criticised the CFMEU's new "impairment policy" as "far from 'best practice'", while the TWU has accused the employer body of "forcing" some workers to take drugs to tackle fatigue.
An employer that revamped its safety policies and procedures by focusing on technology and the on-boarding process, and putting dozens of employees through certificate IV WHS training, has won an award for its commitment to workplace safety.
