SafeWork NSW v H D Projects Pty Ltd [2020] NSWDC 765

District Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: SafeWork NSW v H D Projects Pty Ltd [2020] NSWDC 765 Hearing dates: 2-3 December 2020 Date of orders: 17 December 2020 Decision date: 17 December 2020 Jurisdiction: Criminal Before: Scotting DCJ Decision: 1 I find the defendant guilty of the s 32 offence relating to the breach of s 19(2) of the Act. Catchwords: CRIME – prosecution – work health and safety – duty of persons undertaking business – duty of employers – risk of death or serious injury – workers injured Legislation Cited: Criminal Procedure Act 1986 Interpretation Act 1987 Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000 Work Health and Safety Regulation 2017 Cases Cited: Baiada Poultry Pty Ltd v R (2012) 246 CLR 92 Bulga Underground Operations v Nash [2016] NSWCCA 37 Carrington Slipways Pty Ltd v Callaghan (1985) 11 IR 467 Collins v State Rail Authority of New South Wales (1986) 5 NSWLR 209 Director of Public Prosecutions v JCS Fabrications Pty Ltd and JMAL Group Pty Ltd [2019] VSCA 50 Director of Public Prosecutions v Vibro-Pile (Aust) Pty Ltd (2016) 49 VR 676 Dunlop Rubber Australia Ltd v Buckley (1952) 87 CLR 313 Genner Constructions Pty Ltd v WorkCover Authority of New South Wales [2001] NSWIRComm 267 Hammersley Iron Pty Ltd v Robertson (unreported WASC 2 October 1998) Inspector Ching v Bros Bins Systems Pty Ltd [2004] NSWIRComm 197 Kench v Adams (1906) 23 WN (NSW) 48 Kirk v Industrial Court of New South Wales (2010) 239 CLR 531 Kirwin v The Pilbara Infrastructure Pty Ltd [2012] WASC 99 Laing O'Rourke (BMC) Pty Ltd v Kirwin [2011] WASCA 117 Mahmood v Western Australia (2008) 232 CLR 397 Nash v Resource Pacific Pty Ltd (No 3) [2018] NSWSC 45 R v Board of Trustees of the Science Museum [1993] 1 WLR 1171 R v Commercial Industrial Construction Group Pty Ltd (2006) 14 VR 321 R v Nelson Group Services (Maintenance) Ltd [1998] 4 All ER 332 Royall v The Queen (1991) 172 CLR 378 S Kidman & Co Ltd v Dr John Lowndes CM and Director of Public Prosecutions (NT) [2016] NTCA 5 SafeWork New South Wales v Rawson Homes Pty Ltd [2016] NSWDC 237 Simpson Design and Associates Pty Ltd v Industrial Court of New South Wales [2011] NSWCA 316 Slivak v Lurgi (Aust) Pty Ltd (2001) 205 CLR 304 Smith v Broken Hill Pty Ltd (1957) 97 CLR 337 Tangerine Confectionery Ltd and Veolia ES (UK) Ltd v R [2011] EWCA Crim 2015 Thiess Pty Ltd v Industrial Court of New South Wales (2010) 78 NSWLR 94 TNT Australia Ltd v Christie (2003) 65 NSWLR 1 Walplan Pty Ltd v Wallace (1985) 8 FCR 27 WorkCover Authority of New South Wales v Kellogg (Aust) Pty Ltd [1999] NSWIRComm 453 WorkCover Authority of New South Wales v Kirk Group Holdings Pty Ltd (2004) 135 IR 166 WorkCover Authority of NSW v Atco Controls Pty Ltd (1998) 82 IR 80 WorkCover Authority of NSW v E & T Bricklaying Pty Ltd [2015] NSWDC 369 Texts Cited: Gino Dal Pont, The Law of Agency, 3rd edition, Lexis Nexis, Sydney, 2013 Category: Principal judgment Parties: SafeWork NSW (Prosecutor) H D Projects Pty Ltd (Defendant) Representation: Counsel: M Moir (Prosecutor) R Reitano/M Baroni (Defendant)