The Minns Government will introduce an industrial manslaughter offence in NSW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new laws will ensure the most serious work health and safety breaches carry a severe penalty, sending a clear message that those who place a worker\u2019s life at risk will be held to account in the event of a workplace death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite years of campaigning by the families of those killed at work, NSW is the last mainland state without an industrial manslaughter offence or legislation in parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In February 2023, the former government, with other states and territories, agreed to amend model work health and safety laws to allow for jurisdictions to introduce industrial manslaughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Industrial manslaughter allows a corporation to be held liable for the death of a person caused by that corporation\u2019s employees within the scope of their work. Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SafeWork will begin an extensive consultation process which will include work health and safety experts, business groups, unions, legal stakeholders and families of people who have been killed at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The NSW Government will formally begin the consultation process in coming weeks and intends to introduce a bill to parliament in the first half of next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Workers in NSW deserve the right to feel safe at work and these laws are designed to make the state\u2019s workplaces safer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minister for Work Health and Safety, Sophie Cotsis said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI hope these laws act as such a strong deterrent that no one ever needs to be prosecuted. We must prevent fatal injuries in the workplace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThese penalties acknowledge the significant pain and suffering of families and loved ones of workers who have died in preventable workplace incidents.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Minns Government will introduce an industrial manslaughter offence in NSW. The new laws will ensure the most serious work health and safety breaches carry a severe penalty, sending a clear message that those who place a worker\u2019s life at risk will be held to account in the event of a workplace death. Despite years … Continue reading “Industrial manslaughter law to be introduced in NSW”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23519,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23518\/revisions\/23519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}