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  • The Cost of Confusing Safety Compliance with Insubordination

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    Drew McGiffert
    774 words
    3–5 minutes

    The line between corporate safety rhetoric and operational reality is often razor-thin. When a business champions a zero-tolerance approach to unsafe practices it must back its words when staff take them literally. A recent federal decision, Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union v Visy Packaging Pty Ltd (No 3) [2013] FCA 525,…