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Employers that improve workplace communication and provide supervisors with training on mental health are effectively tackling stress, Japanese researchers have found.

Simple strategies, such as walking over and talking to colleagues instead of emailing them, can significantly reduce the health risks posed by sedentary work, Comcare says in a new toolkit on the issue.

A US study has found a direct correlation between workplace health and wellbeing programs, which include health assessments, and workers' weight loss.

Repeat OHS offender in Queensland fined $120k after two more incidents; WorkCover NSW investigating industrial estate death; Comcare leads by example with workplace move; and New Western Australian Resources Safety boss appointed.

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Employers have been advised to educate shift workers on cardiovascular problems to stop early manifestations of disease, after a Canadian study of more than two million people found shift work is linked to heart attacks and strokes.

"Funky" initiatives involving yoga and herbal tea have been a key part of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's successful health and wellbeing program.

Shift work and obesity have been linked to low back pain (LBP), which increases absence rates and costs the Australian economy $9 billion a year in direct and indirect costs, an Australian study has found.

A spate of work-related suicides and rising stress rates have prompted the International Labour Organisation (ILO), and other international bodies, to call on employers to continue investing heavily in OHS, for both ethical and economic reasons.

Employers can combat workplace stress by implementing a three-tiered stress-intervention strategy, according to senior Canadian organisational psychologist, Dr Kevin Kelloway.