Our Expertise
For All Areas
Health & Safety
Our health and safety experts work with clients in many diverse sectors, including high-risk areas such as construction, infrastructure, and manufacturing. Our work includes strategic advice for the boardroom, defending prosecutions in the court, and reviewing operational processes for businesses in the private and public sectors.
We regularly draft commercial contracts that address health and safety in a pragmatic, comprehensive manner.
We also provide advice on health and safety obligations in relation to employers, principals, contractors, volunteers, and the public. We conduct training and audit processes, so that the principles of health and safety can be put into practice easily and properly.
Our experienced health and safety litigators manage investigations and prosecutions under the Health and Safety in Employment Act.
Our Experience
- Representation of clients in relation to prosecutions under the Health and Safety in Employment Act resulting from fatalities in the workplace
- Successfully working with clients to negotiate alternatives to prosecution with the Department of Labour
- Working with clients to influence major changes in workplace attitudes and commitments to health and safety through whole of workplace reviews
- Advice for Crown Entities and Local Government on the health and safety issues associated with key infrastructure
- Advice on potential liabilities arising from contaminated sites
- Fatalities involving heavy machinery at a landfill, operating heavy goods vehicles at ports, plant operator accident involving hoppers and operating a shredder at a recycling plant
- Defending a prosecution against a party that is not the employer or has a presence on site such as landlords and owners of plant who contract out the running of the plant
