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Work Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011
31Reckless conduct – Category 1
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31 Reckless conduct – Category 1
(1) A person commits a Category 1 offence if:
(b) the person, without reasonable excuse, engages in conduct
that exposes an individual to whom that duty is owed to a risk
of death or serious injury or illness; and
(c) the person is reckless as to the risk to an individual of death or
serious injury or illness.
than as a person conducting a business or undertaking or as
an officer of a person conducting a business or undertaking) –
$300 000 or imprisonment for 5 years or both; or
of a person conducting a business or undertaking – $600 000
or imprisonment for 5 years or both; or
$3 000 000.
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(1A) Section 12B does not apply to the physical elements referred to in
subsection (1)(b) and (c).
(2) The prosecution bears the burden of proving that the conduct was
engaged in without reasonable excuse.