An employer (NSW Police) owes a duty of care to an employee for foreseeable psychiatric injury from occupational stress, but the content of that duty is not elevated beyond ordinary negligence principles.
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An employer owes a duty to take reasonable steps to protect an employee from psychiatric injury caused by vicarious trauma, and may breach that duty by failing to act on obvious warning signs.
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