A new report released in conjunction with national Go Home on Time Day - which is today - has found millions of Australian workers aren't taking regular lunch breaks or annual leave - and it's "making us sick".
Most employers in the manufacturing industry's most hazardous sub-sector appreciate the importance of health and safety, but few proactively seek ways to improve their safety systems, instead relying on workers' "common sense", a new report has found.
Depression-related absences hidden from employers; Presumptive workers' comp laws pass in WA; Future of heavy vehicle safety laws determined tomorrow; and ABCC-restoration Bill introduced.
Workers who receive regular feedback and recognition from their employers have higher levels of wellbeing and lower stress levels, but a new study shows that fewer than half of working Australians receive this support.
Employers are being urged to reconsider the length of night shifts for contractors, after a study found the odds of an "event" resulting in a mining contractor's death - instead of an injury or near miss - increased after eight hours into shifts beginning at 11pm.
Employers can reduce workplace stress levels by giving employees the same flexibility as managers to "adjust their work" when they feel "out of sorts", according to Swedish researchers.
Queensland's OHS regulator has been advised by the Coroner to introduce safety regulations for the hazardous house-removal industry within a year, after a young worker was fatally crushed beneath a house on his second day on the job.
A major Safe Work Australia report has found that 63 per cent of the work-related deaths that occurred in 2012 involved vehicles, while falling objects also caused a high-proportion of deaths. SWA has also released a special report on deaths and injuries arising from falls from height.
Employers will only incur significant costs from complying with new Codes of Practice if they aren't complying with existing safety laws, Safe Work Australia says in a consultation regulation impact statement for the draft model stevedoring Code.
