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Work Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011
34BIndustrial manslaughter
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34B Industrial manslaughter
(1) A person commits the offence of industrial manslaughter if:
(b) the person is a person conducting a business or undertaking
or an officer of a person conducting a business or undertaking;
and
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(c) the person intentionally engages in conduct; and
(d) the conduct breaches the health and safety duty and causes
the death of an individual to whom the health and safety duty
is owed; and
(e) the person is reckless or negligent about the conduct
breaching the health and safety duty and causing the death of
that individual.
(a) for an individual – imprisonment for life; or
(b) for a body corporate – 65 000 penalty units.
(2) Strict liability applies to subsection (1)(a) and (b).
(3) A volunteer does not commit industrial manslaughter for a failure to
comply with a health and safety duty, unless the duty is under
section 28 or 29.
Note for subsection (3)
The defendant has an evidential burden in relation to the matters in
subsection (3) (see section 43BU of the Criminal Code).
(4) For this section, a person's conduct causes death if it substantially
contributes to the death.