One of the key changes to health and safety regulation in Western Australia brought about by the Work Health and Safety Act (2020) WA...

Resource Recovery Solutions Pty Ltd v Ayton [2021] WASC 443 The offence of “gross negligence” was introduced into Western Australia’s...

I believe that in most cases there is a reasonable synergy between general legal principles underpinning health and safety legislation...

Anyone with an interest in safety who is on LinkedIn could not help but be aware of the decision in R v Brisbane Auto Recycling [2020]...

In a recent comment on a LinkedIn post I asked for evidence of how Industrial Manslaughter wold contribute to safe workplaces. In...

I have written previously on what I believe the limits are of industrial manslaughter specifically, and prosecutions generally. But in...

One of the ways organisations like to emphasise safety is with corporate branding: safety moments, safety conversations, safety...

Further to my recent blog on the limits of prosecutions (The prosecution problem revisited), the prosecution summary of the first case...

On 1 August 2019 an article was published about a health and safety prosecution in Western Australia, and it was another rallying cry...

First, I have to apologise for my lack of publishing activity recently. I do have a bundle of articles I need to complete, but I have...

Recently, Maria Jackson became the first person to receive a custodial sentence for a breach of occupational health and safety...

I have been criticised for many things based on my observations about health and safety management over the years. Being a lawyer, it is...

A very common conversation I have with organisations is, what is “practicable” and how do organisations meet the legal obligation to...

Dr Rob Long and I will be running our Due Diligence workshop in Sydney on 20 and 21 February. You can register HERE. This workshop makes...

Last year, Craig Thornton from Mango was kind enough to host a webinar inviting me to share some ideas from my new book, Paper Safe: The...

Below is a link to a webinar that was hosted by Craig Thornton from Mango last year. The webinar looks at the broad issue of process in...

On 18 December 2018, the WA State Government announced Darren Kavanagh as the new WorkSafe Commissioner. According to the media release:...

There has been a recent outcry across the health and safety community, and others I suspect, about the recent decision of a chain of...

Let me put a stake in the ground before I set about dissecting the corpse of executive liability for safety and health. I do not believe...

A recent post, a very dangerous precedent, by one of my favorite commentators, Sue Bottrell, raised the eyebrows of a few in the safety...