Industrial Manslaughter concerns of the Victorian government taskforce

In April this year the Victorian Government’s Workplace Manslaughter Implementation Taskforce raised the following issues in its Criminal Law Reform Consultation Paper, seen by the SafetyAtWorkBlog:

• the definition of “person” in the OHS and proposed Industrial Manslaughter laws
• the establishment of negligence and the standard of care expected by the reasonable person
• the extension of Industrial Manslaughter offence to the deaths of members of the public
• whether a decision or act causes the death or only contributes to it
• exceptions to the laws beyond just volunteers
• inter-agency cooperation and coordination for effective prosecutions.

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