Tag: Corporate Manslaughter
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Mass-casualty OHS enforcement—The landmark prosecutions over hotel quarantine and aged care fatalities
In an aggressive expansion of industrial safety prosecution, WorkSafe Victoria has fundamentally rewritten the rules of corporate liability for biological hazards. The independent safety regulator has launched a series of historic criminal indictments against prominent residential care providers, including WorkSafe Victoria v Heritage Care Pty Ltd and WorkSafe Victoria v St Basil’s Homes for the…
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The myth of the sovereign shield—The high-stakes reality of Australia’s first industrial manslaughter conviction
For years, the corporate safety arena treated the introduction of industrial manslaughter laws as a highly debated political talking point rather than an immediate operational threat. Boardrooms frequently assumed that the standard corporate defence shield, built from layers of middle management, extensive policy folders, and complex corporate insurance structures, would insulate individual directors from criminal…