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European researchers have found shift work impairs workers' cognitive functioning, and warn the problem could have a significant impact on safety outcomes as the number of shift-work roles increases.

An employer says it has made its workplace safer by introducing seven "safehaven" rules, and reduced its total recordable injury frequency rate by 30 per cent.

Australian researchers have found that while medical practitioners are regularly exposed to aggression from "external sources", bullying or abuse from co-workers has the greatest impact on their health and job satisfaction.

Advances in predictive analytics will make it easier for employers to foresee and prevent safety incidents, but low-probability disasters such as oil rig failures are likely to "defy prediction", according to a US expert on occupational medicine.

A new European report has outlined how employers in a highly hazardous industry have reduced workers' exposure to violence, infectious diseases and other risks.

White-collar workers are more likely than their blue-collar counterparts to suffer thoracic spine pain, French researchers have found.

An employer has reduced staff turnover to nearly zero by providing workers with weekly massages, personal training and other perks to "take the stress out of the day", according to its business development manager.

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• Paid domestic violence leave flagged for awards review.

A major employer has slashed the injury rate in one of its businesses by introducing journey management plans, a safety ownership program and other initiatives, according to its latest sustainability report.

Reducing suicide rates under Mates in Construction's suicide-prevention strategy is not only good for workers and their families, but saves industry and government millions of dollars, according to a report.