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Workers with passive, undemanding roles are at increased risk of cognitive decline, and employers should attempt to mitigate this and associated issues, like higher absence rates, through clever job design, a decade-long study has found.
Employment relationships should always be characterised, by judges, in a way that avoids or minimises the risk of WHS or workers' comp violations, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in a landmark gig economy case involving a Foodora rider.
A major international company has secured AS/NZS 4801 certification across its Australian operations, under a process involving a third-party contractor management provider and ensuring alignment with the new global Standard for OHS management systems, ISO 45001.
Australian PCBUs tend to focus heavily on the "real and imagined" hazards posed by workers with mental illness, while being "almost indifferent" to how these workers are psychologically impacted by discriminatory and poorly designed work systems, according to a leading disability rights and industrial relations academic.
A union official who encouraged workers to defy a major employer's sun-protection policy was attempting to fulfil the wishes of workers and didn't engage in unlawful industrial action, a full Federal Court has found in setting aside high-range penalties.
A confined-space worker who wasn't provided with flame-resistant PPE or adequate training on how to deal with a fire has been awarded more than $700,000 in damages.
