Browsing: White-collar work


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Support networks improve safety and retain key staff

Providing staff with peer support and mentoring increases engagement and improves safety, a mental health organisation has claimed on the back of a report raising concerns about declining support networks.


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Optus boosts worker wellbeing with gamification

An app-based health and wellbeing program has helped a major retailer's employees "join the dots" between their daily habits and their health, and reduced absences.


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Demand-reduction tackles two major stressors

Employers can improve safety through the "moral choice" of reducing job demands and increasing resources, while workers must take responsibility for their own work-life balance, according to recommendations from a recent worrying survey of principals.


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Standing desks: don't stand for too long too quickly

Switching to standing desks reduces musculoskeletal stress, but workers must increase their standing time gradually to avoid the risk of injury, an occupational physiotherapist warns.




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Worker loses compensation after lifting kayak

An injured worker seen lifting a kayak and fishing in an "illuminating" surveillance video no longer suffers from the effects of his compensable injuries, a tribunal has found.


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Scientific proof not required for headsets claim

A worker has been awarded workers' compensation for tinnitus arising from the use of headsets, following a "common-sense evaluation" of the evidence, while another worker has been refused compensation for hearing loss incurred at employer-provided accommodation.


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