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Wellbeing experts have identified a type of office workstation that can reduce workers' stress levels and increase their physical activity by more than 30 per cent.

An injured worker has been awarded the ongoing costs of physiotherapy and massage she has received for nearly 30 years, after a tribunal found her case was an exception to the general view that passive, long-term treatments aren't reasonably compensable.

An Australian study has found that sitting-reduction strategies that can be incorporated into work tasks, like using more distant printers, are the most feasible for workers to adopt, and were highly used by study participants.

A worker has been awarded more than $1 million in damages after sustaining injuries accessing boxes stacked under his desk, with a court rejecting his employer's claim that the boxes weren't needed for day-to-day operations and the worker was the master of his own misfortune.

Workplace strategies tackling sedentary health risks must address "perceptions of sitting norms", say UK researchers, who found workers feel "awkward" and "stupid" standing during meetings.

Medibank has cut absences and boosted engagement since moving to a six-star green building, but the results hinge on concurrent policies prioritising psychological wellbeing and bypassing adversarial injury management systems, according to its community and wellbeing general manager.

A tribunal has rejected a compensation claim for tennis elbow caused by computer work and "extensive" hand writing, after hearing the condition was most likely caused or aggravated by the applicant moving house.

A workplace health intervention reduced participants' sitting time by nearly an hour a day and built "office comradery", but highlighted the challenge of improving the sedentary habits of employees working from home, an Australian study has found.

What are best practice PCBUs and their officers doing to comply with their due diligence duties? And what WHS issues should the officers of white-collar organisations be focusing on? Senior WHS and employment lawyer Trent Sebbens explains in this Q&A with OHS Alert.

A manager's genuine attempts to relieve a worker's workload have defeated the latter's compensation claim for a psych injury, which she says arose from being ignored and left to "flounder".