Studies involving the experiences of nearly 15,000 workers during the COVID-19 pandemic have identified key lessons for preventing burnout in the "post-pandemic" workplace, including by mitigating "moral distress".
Older workers report higher stress levels than their younger colleagues, and are more likely to experience musculoskeletal pain, when the number of days they spend working from home exceeds their preferences, an Australian study has found.
Researchers have identified a string of occupations and chemical agents linked to a certain type of cancer, and warned that efforts to identify occupational causes of cancer in females are lagging, resulting in missed opportunities for prevention.
Workers with high "mental toughness" have lower perceived stress levels and a higher quality of life, and researchers have identified the specific techniques that help to build it.
More than one in two workers who were deemed, by a major study, to have poor posture while performing "pushing and pulling" tasks, developed severe lower back pain (LBP), highlighting the significant association between the two variables.
Shift work is linked to two serious health issues that shift workers are particularly unlikely to seek treatment for, and workplace awareness campaigns are not helping, researchers have found.
Nearly nine out of 10 workers in a notoriously dangerous industry have been exposed to a highly hazardous process, and many of them have a life-threatening disease, Australian researchers have found.
The mental health of employees cannot benefit from workplace mental health screening programs unless they are paired with access to post-screening interventions, according to research from the Black Dog Institute and other bodies.
The effectiveness of workplace safety management practices applied to chemicals requires urgent verification, according to preventive medicine researchers, who have found that working in premises where regulated chemicals are handled is associated with a high risk of developing cancer.
