Category: Health, wellbeing and safety

While employee surveys can be a useful tool to identify health and safety hazards, acting on survey findings necessitates a considered and well-rounded approach.
Effectively managing workplace stress requires both immediate intervention and long-term cultural change. 
There’s far more to burnout than feeling tired. Burned out employees exhibit a range of symptoms which call for proactive management and sustainable work cultures.
HR practitioners are often exposed to various emotionally distressing and challenging situations at work. To manage this, workplace wellbeing expert Dr Adam Fraser shares his research-backed tips for HR.
Taking a tick-box approach to workplace investigations can open your business up to risk. Two legal experts walk HR practitioners through best-practice tips when managing workplace complaints.
As our ways of working evolve, organisations are encountering new and unfamiliar psychosocial risks, including digital overload and tech-facilitated harassment. How can HR help keep these hazards in check?
An expert and a psychologist offer advice to help support employees who may be experiencing distress following a traumatic event.
Managers have more influence on employees’ mental health than their doctors or therapists, according to a new study. How can HR ensure middle managers have the tools to foster psychosocial safety among their teams?
The ATO won AHRI’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy Award for its ‘Thriving Minds’ program, a simple yet highly effective wellbeing strategy, which increased employees’ productivity and focus.
As year-end deadlines and celebrations flood the schedule, organisations may find their workforce facing exhaustion and, in severe cases, burnout. Use these tips to guide employees towards reclaiming their wellbeing amid the holiday hustle.
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HOW TO

A HR practitioner offers a range of thought-provoking questions to help you plan your next career move.
Keep these tips in mind to ensure your organisation’s probation periods go beyond being a tick-box exercise and become a driver of strong culture and high performance.
From building your case in advance to avoiding the trap of false politeness, use these strategies to help you engage in constructive dissent at the executive level.

LEGAL

Almost one million Australians now hold more than one job. But what if an employee’s second job interferes with their work or their employer’s interests? Here are two FWC cases that clarify how far employers can go to restrict secondary employment.
With the minimum wage and award increases fast approaching, here’s how HR can help their organisations to assess their options.
Victoria has become the first Australian state to legislate the right to work from home. Here’s how the new legislation will work, and what it could mean for Australia’s broader industrial relations landscape.
As the financial year draws to a close, use these prompts to ensure both you and your organisation are prepared for EOFY requirements across tax, payroll and reporting.