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Managing employee mental health is a responsibility of all organisations, and understanding that workplace wellbeing is driven by "how work is designed" is essential to implementing preventive and supportive strategies, according to a workplace wellbeing expert.

With recent disasters, ranging from floods to the COVID-19 pandemic, placing extreme mental health demands on business owners and workers, employers have been reminded of the need to create healthy workplaces "from the top", on the release of a free resource.

An Australian study has found a strong psychosocial safety climate (PSC) at an organisational level reduces digital job demands for remote workers and reduces their work-life conflict. It highlights key steps employers can take to increase PSC levels to improve both worker wellbeing and job performance.

With employers increasingly facing the challenge of managing workplace behaviour and conduct across a hybrid environment, a leading workplace lawyer has highlighted the key steps they can take to maintain a positive work culture, prevent bullying and harassment, and comply with their duty of care in the hybrid working world.

Two-thirds of employees who work from home experience mild to severe neck, shoulder and lower back pain, while many self-report poorer performance at home than in the office, a study has found, identifying poor home-office ergonomics as the main contributing factor.

The work and lifestyle behaviours of Australia's fly-in-fly-out workers have been linked to high psychological distress levels and risky health behaviours, a study has found, with the researchers suggesting mental health interventions and awareness campaigns as solutions to poor worker health.

A former Federal Court judge has found a WHS regulator's post-inquest investigation into the murder of a nurse was "comprehensive and thorough", but flagged WHS amendments around prosecution procedures and information disclosures, given these matters caused considerable distress to the nurse's family.

Employers continue to have a pandemic-related WHS duty to ensure all workers who can work remotely do so, the Australian Council of Trade Unions has claimed, following its executive meeting on the nation's high number of COVID-19 cases.

With a horror cold and flu season upon us, and COVID-19 making its rounds again, Australian workplaces have experienced an unparalleled rise in sick leave. Investing in wellbeing-focused initiatives aimed at reducing sickness is one-way employers can lessen the pressure of absenteeism, says a leading business expert.

A WHS regulator has released three new information sheets with guidelines on identifying, controlling and responding to gendered violence in the workplace, specifically, s-xual harassment and assault.