Failure to comply with health and safety duty—Category 2
32 Failure to comply with health and safety duty—Category 2
A person commits a Category 2 offence if—
the person has a health and safety duty; and
the person fails to comply with that duty; and
the failure exposes an individual to a risk of death or serious injury or illness.
Maximum penalty:
in the case of an offence committed by an individual (other than as a person conducting a business or undertaking or as an officer of a person conducting a business or undertaking)—$150 000;
in the case of an offence committed by an individual as a person conducting a business or undertaking or as an officer of a person conducting a business or undertaking—$300 000;
in the case of an offence committed by a body corporate—$1 500 000.
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