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An app-based health and wellbeing program has helped a major retailer's employees "join the dots" between their daily habits and their health, and reduced absences.
An employer has been found 40 per cent liable for a serious workplace injury, which was caused by a subcontracted excavator operator negligently using his mobile phone while operating the vehicle.
An employer has entered an enforceable undertaking worth nearly $1 million after a worker was killed between an elevated work platform and a concrete slab, while regulatory action taken against two major companies after the incident has been withdrawn.
Employers have been urged to take psychological risks as seriously as other workplace hazards, after an audit found that few mining operations properly consult with workers on mental wellbeing strategies.
A worker has proven an "unbroken chain of causation" between being posted to a remote location, contracting whooping cough and suffering a debilitating stroke.
In a case reiterating the need for employers to provide sufficient evidentiary material in workers' comp disputes, a tribunal has found that an injured health and safety officer is entitled to weekly benefits.
Optus has successfully appealed against a $3.9 million judgment for a labour-hire worker, who developed chronic post-traumatic stress disorder after a co-worker attempted to murder him.
Employers can improve safety through the "moral choice" of reducing job demands and increasing resources, while workers must take responsibility for their own work-life balance, according to recommendations from a recent worrying survey of principals.
Shift work has been widely linked to impaired sleep and poor safety outcomes, but it also diminishes a worker's ability to perform daily activities like running errands or paying bills, and can lead to reckless behaviour, US researchers have found.
