Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 34C

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.