Tag: Hotel Quarantine
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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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Institutional accountability and the quarantine paradox—The criminal prosecution of the Victorian Department of Health
In an unprecedented shift that permanently breaks down the historical divide between public sector governance and criminal safety enforcement, WorkSafe Victoria has launched a historic prosecution against the state’s own health department. In WorkSafe Victoria v Department of Health [2021], the independent regulator filed 58 separate criminal charges under Section 21 and Section 23 of…