In February 2018, prescriptions became required in Australia to obtain any codeine-containing medicine for pain relief, cough, and colds. These codeine scheduling changes led to a significant drop in the amount of low-dose codeine being given out across the country.

In this ISCRR Learning Series webinar, Dr. Michael Di Donato (Healthy Working Lives Research Group, Monash University) discusses the findings of his study of the impact of this national policy change on trends in the prevalence, pattern, and doses of opioids and pain medicines dispensed to Victorian workers with claims for musculoskeletal conditions.

Join your host, Dr. Jimmy Twin, ISCRR's Communications and Translation Manager, as he guides the conversation on this important workplace health and safety topic!

*ISCRR is the acronym of The Institute for Safety Compensation and Recovery Research: a joint initiative of WorkSafe Victoria and Monash Univeristy.

In this ISCRR podcast, Dr. Eric Windholz from Monash University examines the current insurance arrangements for athletes, the exemption from workers’ compensation of professional sportspersons in particular, and options for reform in light of the recommendations from the 2023 Senate inquiry into concussions and repeated head trauma in contact sports.

Join your host, Dr. Jimmy Twin, ISCRR's Communications and Translation Manager, as he guides the conversation on this important workplace health and safety topic!

To get in touch with Eric, please email: eric.windholz@monash.edu

*ISCRR is the acronym of The Institute for Safety Compensation and Recovery Research: a joint initiative of WorkSafe Victoria and Monash Univeristy.

In this ISCRR podcast, three esteemed researchers from Monash University discuss their research, all with a focus on work-related violence from a particular lens.

Dr Dianne Sheppard, Senior Research Fellow at the Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC), opens the discussion with an overview of her work on the financial burden associated with work-related violence.

Professor Helen De Cieri, Director of Research in the Department of Management at Monash Business School, follows with an overview of her work on gendered violence in healthcare.

They are joined by Dr Sarah Oxford, Senior Researcher and expert in evaluations at ISCRR, with her summary of the results of ISCRR’s Environmental Scan of interventions for preventing and managing work-related violence and aggression in acute and home-based health services.

Join your host, Dr. Jimmy Twin, ISCRR's Communications and Translation Manager, as he guides the conversation on this important workplace health and safety topic!

*ISCRR is the acronym of The Institute for Safety Compensation and Recovery Research: a joint initiative of WorkSafe Victoria and Monash Univeristy.