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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.

Major legislative changes occurred in all nine Australian jurisdictions in the first quarter of 2015. This article examines these and other developments in work health and safety and workers' compensation.

A manager who fell off a balcony while under the influence of cocaine and alcohol at a gathering at his home wasn't injured "in the course of his employment", a NSW tribunal has ruled, rejecting his claim that the gathering constituted a "seamless" continuation of a work function.