Failure to comply with health and safety duty — Category 2
32 Failure to comply with health and safety duty — Category 2
A person commits an offence (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 of injury or harm to the individual’s health.
Penalty for this subsection:
for an individual, if the offence is committed by the individual as a person conducting a business or undertaking or as an officer of a person conducting a business or undertaking, a fine of $350 000;
for an individual, if paragraph (a) does not apply, a fine of $170 000;
for a body corporate, a fine of $1 800 000.
A person charged with a Category 2 offence may be convicted of a Category 3 offence.
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