NSW Caselaw
Industrial Court of New South Wales
CITATION: Inspector Ross Wolf v Colebrook & Sons Pty Ltd [2008] NSWIRComm 231
Prosecutor: PARTIES: Inspector Ross Wolf Defendant: Colebrook & Sons Pty Ltd
FILE NUMBER(S): IRC113 of 2007
CORAM: Kavanagh J
CATCHWORDS: OHS s8(1) - plea - failure to ensure system of work - distracted employee - particulars establish offence - fatality - mitigation - financial constraints - penalty
Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000 s8(1) LEGISLATION CITED: Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 s2 Fines Act 1996 s6
Alcatel v WorkCover Authority (1996) 70 IR 99 Capral Aluminium Limited v WorkCover Authority of New South Wales [2000] NSWIRComm 71 Ferguson v Nelmac Pty Limited (1999) 92 IR 188 Haynes v James Glass and Aluminium Pty Ltd (unreported decision of Industrial Court of NSW, Fisher CJ, 20 May 1994, Matter No 772 of 1991) Inspector Green v Camilleri Properties Pty Ltd (2006) 152 IR 156 Inspector Haynes v CI&D Manufacturing Pty and Anor (1994) 60 IR 149 Lawrenson Diecasting Pty Ltd v WorkCover Authority of New South Wales (Inspector Ch'ng) (1999) 90 IR 464 Manpac Industries Pty Ltd (formerly t/as Pacific Concrete & Quarries Pty Ltd) v WorkCover Authority of New South Wales (Inspector Glass) [2001] NSWIRComm 190 CASES CITED: Markarian v R (2005) 215 ALR 213 R v Thomson; R v Houlton (2000) 49 NSWLR 383 R v Winchester (1992) 58 A Crim R 345 Tyler v Sydney Electricity (1993) 47 IR 1 WorkCover Authority of New South Wales (Inspector Mulder) v Arbor Products International (Australia) Pty Ltd (2001) 105 IR 81 WorkCover Authority of NSW (Inspector Egan) v ATCO Controls Pty Limited (1998) 82 IR 80 Workcover Authority of New South Wales (Inspector Farrell) v David Carl Schrader [2002] NSWIRComm 25 WorkCover Authority of NSW v McDonald's Australia Ltd and Anor (2000) 95 IR 383 Workover Authority of New South Wales (Inspector Ankucic) v The Crown in the Right of the State of New South Wales (National Parks and Wildlife Service) [2003] NSWIRComm 170 WorkCover Authority of New South Wales (Insp Page) v Walco Hoist Rentals Pty Limited & Anor (No 2) 99 IR 163
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