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Employers should be arming managers against the myths, misconceptions and stereotypes around the ability of workers to work safely as they age, an organisational psychologist specialising in workplace transitions has advised.

An alarming "first of its kind" WHS survey has found that burnout rates are surging, with isolated environments partly to blame, while a new "WHS Radar" has warned of the "emergence of complacency" around critical safety issues.

A surge in back-to-back online meetings, and guilt over not appearing as "online", are unsafely affecting hybrid workers' self-regulated break behaviours, according to UK researchers, who call for leaders to show it's okay to be away from the desk.

An employer fined $400,000 over the death of a lone worker has lost its appeal against its conviction and sentence, with a court affirming it was open to a jury to conclude the company should have implemented a two-person rule for a dangerous task.

• Company officer charged with bullying and causing breaches;
  
• First anti-harassment audit completed in mining campaign; and
  
• Injury fraudster sentenced after probe into ambulance calls.

An employee who failed to complete his employer's "working from home" checklist, during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been awarded compensation, with a tribunal ruling his unergonomic home office set-up significantly contributed to his right shoulder injury.

A "formidable and direct" manager's email reprimanding an overworked worker for working from home was unreasonable and caused a compensable psychiatric injury, a tribunal has found.

A labour-hire company "induced or encouraged" a fly-in-fly-out worker to play the soccer game between shifts that injured him, a judge has confirmed, rejecting the company's claim that any inducement came from a third party and removed its liability.

Results from a new international collaborative study have prompted the authors to call for employment policies and safety laws that protect workers from widespread out-of-hours managerial intrusions, while new research by LinkedIn shows "loud leaving" supervisors can help prevent burnout.

"Covert" online bullying, domestic violence and being overlooked for promotion are just some of the psychosocial hazards faced by flexible and hybrid workers, and are issues employers and WHS managers are struggling to tackle, according to two senior WHS lawyers.