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.
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.
A major employer has reduced its days lost to ergonomic injuries from about 200 per year to just two, as well as lowering its workers' comp premiums, since introducing its "ergonomic champions" program.
Alternating between sitting and standing desk work can "close the energy gap" between energy intake and expenditure and prevent weight gain, US researchers have found.
An employer breached its duty of care in failing to prevent a worker, who was on call 24 hours a day, from working up to 70 hours a week and developing a psychiatric injury, the Victorian Supreme Court has found.
Educational materials like pamphlets do little to reduce sick days among white-collar workers with lower back pain, suggesting "one-intervention" approaches are inadequate, researchers have found.
Carpal tunnel syndrome can arise from forceful and repetitive work but not repetition alone, a tribunal has heard in rejecting a white-collar worker's injury claim.
PricewaterhouseCoopers will depart from a traditional office environment, and create a workplace that encourages workers to get up from their desks and move around, at its new Sydney headquarters.
A major intergenerational report has driven home the importance of employers reducing the health risks associated with sedentary work among older employees, according to a leading researcher on the ageing workforce.
