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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 34C

Industrial manslaughter—person conducting business or undertaking

34C Industrial manslaughter—person conducting business or undertaking

(1) A person conducting a business or undertaking commits an offence if—
(a) a worker—
(i) dies in the course of carrying out work for the business or undertaking; or
(ii) is injured in the course of carrying out work for the business or undertaking and later dies; and
(b) the person’s conduct causes the death of the worker; and
(c) the person is negligent about causing the death of the worker by the conduct.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—
(a) for an individual—20 years imprisonment; or
(b) for a body corporate—100,000 penalty units.
Note—
See section 244 or 251 in relation to imputing to a body corporate or public authority particular conduct of employees, agents or officers of the body corporate or public authority.
(2) An offence against subsection (1) is a crime.



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