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An Australian study claims to have confirmed that adequate exercise can mitigate the impacts of sedentary behaviour on cardiovascular health.

The Fair Work Commission has quashed a worker's stop-bullying application, with CCTV footage provided by his employer disproving his claim he was overworked.

Employers that rely on workers to conduct their own risk assessments for working from home risk serious hazards being overlooked through bias, a safety and injury management expert warns.

Employers are entitled to alter workers' flexible working arrangements to improve their performance, but one manager's hasty attempt to do so was unreasonable, a tribunal has found in an injury dispute.

A senior insurance lawyer has outlined increasingly common work-from-home scenarios that can lead to psychological injury or harassment claims, and how managers can avoid them through "human-centred soft skills".

A worker's poor desk arrangement and awkward posture while using her computer did not cause her carpal tunnel syndrome, a tribunal has ruled.

The growing "megatrend" of adopting robotics and automated systems will improve workplace safety, but could have the unintended effect of eroding workers' ability to deal with hazards, a CSIRO analyst has warned conference delegates.

Performance appraisals are formal processes to assess a worker's "overall" performance and don't include employers informally managing specific problems with their work, a tribunal has ruled in an injury dispute.

Australian researchers have urged employers to ensure their workers understand that physical activity outside of work does little to mitigate the negative health effects of prolonged sitting at work.

Ongoing coaching and feedback are crucial for workers to maintain behaviour change and achieve real health benefits from interventions to reduce sitting at work, according to researchers.