The outbreak of COVID-19 in dozens of abattoirs highlights the industry’s appalling working conditions Coronavirus Shelley Marshall 15 October 2020 From the US to Brazil, Britain, Germany and Australia, abattoirs have played a role in spreading COVID-19, and there are lessons to be learnt.
Million-dollar fines and 25 years’ imprisonment: What businesses need to know about new industrial manslaughter laws Legal Neil Salvador 7 August 2020 Industrial manslaughter laws introduced in Victoria last month mean people and organisations can face criminal charges over an employee's death.
Business owner fined and jailed for six months in unprecedented case after fatal forklift accident Workplace Health & Safety Shane Koelmeyer 11 February 2019 The owner of a scrap metal business was found guilty of breaching the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was fatally crushed by a metal bin.
