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...

The Racek Decision (Daniel Racek v DP World Sydney - [2019] FWC 772), published on 8 February 2019, is a very important decision which...

In my latest book, Paper Safe: The triumph of bureaucracy in safety management, I looked at the obligations of an employer to warn...

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...