A new Safe Work Australia report has found that regulators conducted 135,000 workplace visits and handed out nearly 47,000 notices in 2012-13, but the number of reactive visits is decreasing in some jurisdictions.
An increasing number of employers are admitting that they won't consider hiring someone with a mental illness because they believe the person might have a breakdown or take too many sick days, according to new Australian research.
Australian researchers have developed a special hierarchy of controls for tackling psychosocial hazards such as bullying and harassment, and outlined a best-practice approach to risk assessment.
Workplace fatality rate creeping up in NSW; Presumptive cancer comp laws to cover all WA firefighters; and Queensland launches bullying and harassment review.
An employer has reported reducing its recordable injury frequency rate by 22 per cent, largely by targeting muscular stress injuries arising from manual handling.
A global report has outlined eight ways that employers can transform work spaces into "environments that positively encourage health and wellbeing, and stimulate productivity".
Employers should tackle excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) as part of their broader health programs, with hundreds of thousands of Australian workers affected by the condition, researchers have suggested.
The first phase of a multiple coronial inquest into the quad bike-related deaths of nine Queenslanders - including three children and a number of workers - has found that "tragic incidents" involving the controversial vehicles often occur in benign conditions.
