Articles tagged under ‘Work causation’

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• Is your organisation ready for regulatory change? — the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of psychosocial risk assessment and control

  This is Part 2 of a 2-part article that summarises a presentation by Professor Angela Martin at the 2022 Workplace Mental Health Symposium. Part 1 dealt with the ‘what’ about how organisations can prevent harm to people's mental health at work’. This part looks at the ‘why’ and the ‘how’.

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• Psychosocial safety qu'est-ce que c'est? Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, better *

  What is ‘psychosocial safety’? And how does it fit in with legal developments in the area of workplace health and safety?

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• Guidelines for diagnosing, managing and trouble-shooting mental health claims

  GP guidelines on the assessment and management of work-related mental health conditions aim to reduce unnecessary “unfit for work” certificates and improve recovery outcomes.

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• COVID-19 effects on injury compensation claim numbers

  COVID-19 is having a massive range of impacts on our work and health, and these will flow on to the nation’s compensation schemes

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• Identifying psychosocial risks and worker vulnerability

  Guidance from Safe Work Australia can help you clock the psychosocial risks in your workplace, and understand which workers might be most vulnerable.

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• New insurer approach reduces delays in decisions about healthcare

  Delays and disputes are stressful and can have a negative impact on recovery and return to work. The Medical Support Panel in NSW gives speedy, evidence-based answers to questions around work causation and medical treatment.

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• Disputes: at what cost?

  If an employee is suspected of 'gaming the system,' is it worth investigating the matter further and entering into a dispute? We take a look at the costs involved.

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• Historical Workplace Diseases: we've come a long way

  The history of work disease is as old as the concept of work itself. This article takes a look back in time at some of the serious and deadly workplace hazards which were faced in the past.

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• Case Study: I Told Them but They Didn't Listen

  Ms L is a right handed 46 year old who was employed for ten years to pack domestic cleaning chemicals. She was exposed to these chemicals in dust form.

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• Costs of 'job strain' related depression

  What is job strain? How is it linked to depression? And what are the associated costs? New Australian research has the answers...

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• Zeroing in on risky business: Hazard assessment and musculoskeletal disorders

  We take a look at the non physical work factors that contribute to musculoskeletal disorders

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• Compensating 9/11 first responders

  Is compensation for 9/11 first responders a black and white moral issue, or is the situation more complex?

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• Not just a military problem — how concerned should we be about work-related moral injury?

  An under-recognised workplace injury — moral injury and post-traumatic embitterment disorder — is causing significant distress among workers across many different jobs.

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• Spark joy to stay safe at work

  Leaders’ behaviours can influence employees — and also prevent workplace injuries — through ‘emotional contagion’. Here’s how.

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• Work demands and resources linked to mental health absences

  Work that offers few learning opportunities, low co-worker and supervisor support, high emotional demands and high-work family interference is strongly linked to long-term, mental-health related sickness absence.

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• Will IT cause chronic health problems?

  Sedentary work and screen time leisure sound warning bells for the future health of the growing information technology (IT) workforce.

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• Older workers face worse consequences for hard, physical work

  The negative health consequences of high physical work demands depend on age, with workers aged 60 plus facing twice the risk of long term work absence compared to younger workers performing similar tasks.

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• What hurts worse, trauma or workplace insensitivity?

  For ambulance workers, mental health issues result not just from exposure to traumatic events, but from more mundane workplace stressors including the way managers respond to their distress.

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• What types of work cause osteoarthritis?

  Osteoarthritis is a top-ten cause of disability worldwide. With an ageing workforce, employers are likely to see more claims relating to this degenerative joint disease. A new systematic review highlights the workplace risks, and the gaps in our knowledge

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• Mean streets take toll on taxi drivers

  High levels of mental exertion depression are rife amongst taxi drivers, but greater workplace support and civility might help ease the strain.

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• Knee osteoarthritis, age and heavy lifting

  Does working as an airport baggage handler for twenty years increase the risk of knee osteoarthritis, or is aging the real culprit?

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• High demands + low control = depression, anxiety

  New evidence strengthens link between job strain and common mental health disorders, with researchers arguing low control may be more damaging than high demands.

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• Research Short: Professional drivers and chronic back pain

  A Finnish study raises questions about previous associations between professional car driving and chronic lower back pain.

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• Back pain and work: Personal factors

  A range of studies assess personal factors and how they influence work-related back pain

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• Back pain and work: Psychosocial factors. The evidence.

  A range of studies explore whether psychosocial factors contribute to the development of back pain

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• Back pain and work: Physical factors - Physical work. The evidence.

  What does the research tell us about physical work and the impact on back pain?