Blog posts tagged with 'suicide prevention'

There has been a 56 per cent increase in workers’ compensation claims for assaults and exposure to workplace violence since 2017-18, according to a recent Safe Work Australia report. It found that there were 53,139 accepted workers’ compensation claims for being assaulted and 12,721 accepted claims for exposure to workplace or occupational violence over the past 10 years.

Employers need to play an active role in suicide prevention by using a multi-strategy approach across all levels of an organisation, according to the Black Dog Institute.