Employers need to "intensify" their strategies for reducing work-related stress, according to researchers, who have found a third of workers in a white-collar industry could be clinically depressed.
An electorate officer for Federal Senator John Madigan has been denied workers' compensation for a psych injury, after the AAT found that at least one of the multiple work-related causes of his injury was reasonable administrative action.
An Australian study has found employees who work in a new "active design building" spend less time sitting and have less lower back pain, but are more concerned by noise levels.
Employers are being urged to "take the moral choice" of reducing job demands or at least increasing resources, after a national survey of school principals showed the "sheer quantity" of work is their greatest source of stress.
A young Sydney lawyer, who like thousands of his colleagues struggled with depression at the outset of his career, has explained in a new book how to unwind when you're "stressed at [your] desk".
An employer that helps workers take control of their personal and work lives through resilience workshops has achieved "one of the best" lost-time injury frequency rates in its industry, its national WHS manager says.
A national employer has increased hazard and incident reporting, improved communication between employees and leaders and reduced its lost-time injury frequency rate under a three-year safety and wellbeing strategic plan.
Telstra has introduced "more mature" health and safety metrics that provide more comprehensive data than lost-time injury frequency rates, and help it respond quickly to incidents, according to its latest sustainability report.
Employers that allow employees who work from home to self-assess their workspace risks have been warned that such assessments "fall a long way short" of providing a comprehensive view of potential safety risks.
