CRIMINAL LAW — prosecution — work health and safety — duty of persons undertaking business — risk of death or serious injury
SENTENCE — objective seriousness — mitigating factors — aggravating factors — plea of guilty — general deterrence — specific deterrence — capacity to pay appropriate penalty — victim impact statements
COSTS — prosecution costs
OTHER — defendant engaged in residential and commercial roofing work including slate roofing and asbestos removal — workers engaged in dismantling edge protection while standing on roof — worker suffered fatal injuries after he was electrocuted — contact between energised power lines and steel hand rail worker was holding — second worker suffered severe flash burns to legs — failure to ensure site-specific risk assessment had been conducted — failure to ensure power lines were de-energised prior to roofing works being undertaken — failure to provide, implement and enforce adequate Safe Work Method Statement for roofing work
