UNDER APPEAL
On 25 August 2020, the defendant company was sentenced in the Richlands Magistrates Court for breaching s 32 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (‘the Act’), having failed to meet their work health and safety duty under section 19(1) of the Act, to ensure the health and safety of their workers, so far as is reasonably practicable, and exposing a worker to a risk of death or serious injury. The defendant was fined $25,000. A conviction was recorded.