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• DuPont fined after four workers gassed to death in US;
  
• UK employer and individual fined over fatal fall; and
  
• Australian regulators issue fatality alerts.

• NSW Bill kicks off chemicals harmonisation process;
  
• Morley Galleria alert extended to NSW; and
  
• Lend Lease rejects ETU safety claims.

A NSW employer has promised to spend $100,000 on implementing a human resources information system (HRIS) with a special work health and safety module, after it was accused of breaching the State's mirror WHS Act.

The NSW WCC President has confirmed a journey fatality was compensable because the incident was caused by the deceased woman's work-related fatigue.

• Most confined-space deaths result from poor training;
  
• Fuel fire, asbestos and horse alerts issued in NSW; and
  
• OHS licences expiring in the Northern Territory.

A highly-paid HSE advisor, who claims his role involved little more than "tick and flick" work, has been blocked from pursuing an unfair dismissal claim.

The parents of a young worker who was killed in a car accident, after his employer encouraged him to attend his university graduation, have had their $500,000 compensation claim rejected.

Unions are using International Workers' Memorial Day tomorrow to call for company directors to be jailed for up to 20 years for serious safety breaches, and for governments to crack down on workplace exposure to hazardous substances.

Law firm Minter Ellison's new Sydney office was specifically designed to encourage employees to use stairs, move more throughout the working day and stand at their desks, according to partner Andrew Cunningham.

An employer that failed to "genuinely engage" in rehabilitation options for an employee, who sustained a psych injury more than a decade ago, has been ordered to pay him thousands of dollars in past and future gym-related expenses.