Supervisor receives suspended jail sentence for death of junior worker.
Mondaq Business Briefing › Nbr. 2011, January 2011
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Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 - Case overview
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Supervisor receives suspended jail sentence for death of junior worker.
The trend of courts imposing increasingly heavy penalties for OHS offences has again been demonstrated in a recent case in the Victorian County Court, in which an experienced drilling rig foreman was convicted and sentenced to 20 months imprisonment, wholly suspended for three years. This follows closely after a construction worker was sentenced to a four month intensive corrections order (see our Legal Update).
The foreman was convicted of an offence of reckless endangerment under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic) (the OHS Act) because he directed a 21 year old i...See the full content of this document
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