Inspector Jelley v Dupond Industries Pty Ltd & Ors [2007] NSWIRComm 316

Industrial Court of New South Wales

CITATION: Inspector Jelley v Dupond Industries Pty Ltd & Ors [2007] NSWIRComm 316

PROSECUTOR Inspector Crispian Jelley

DEFENDANTS PARTIES: Dupond Industries Pty Ltd Graham Craig Dupond Graham Allan Dupond Stephen Norman Dupond

FILE NUMBER(S): IRC 9 of 2007; IRC 10, 11 and 12 of 2007

CORAM: Staff J

CATCHWORDS: Occupational health and safety - Prosecution under s 8(1) and s 26(1) of the Occupational Health & Safety Act 2000 - Manufacturing industry - Failure to properly guard machine - Fatality - Foreseeability - Culpability - General and specific deterrence - Plea of guilty - Offence proven - Penalties imposed

Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 LEGISLATION CITED: Factories Shops and Industries Act 1962 Occupational Health & Safety Act 1983 Occupational Health & Safety Act 2000

Capral Aluminium Ltd v WorkCover Authority of New South Wales (2000) 49 NSWLR 610 Inspector Glass v Foamex Polystyrene Pty Ltd [2004] NSWIRComm 100 Inspector Sharpin v A Team Concrete (Aust) Pty Ltd & Ors [2004] NSWIRComm 182 Inspector Simpson v Tomago Aluminium Co Pty Ltd (unreported, Haylen J, 27 April 2004, matter No 5351 of 2003) Maddaford v CSR Limited and Mulgoa Quarries Pty Ltd [2004] NSWIRComm 337 CASES CITED: Morrison v Coal Operations Australia Ltd (No 2) (2005) 141 IR 465 Morrison v Powercoal Pty Ltd (2003) 130 IR 364 R v Previtera (1997) 94 A Crim R 76 R v Thomson; R v Houlton (2000) 49 NSWLR 383 Warman International Limited v WorkCover Authority of New South Wales (1998) 80 IR 326 WorkCover Authority of New South Wales (Inspector Downie) v Menzies Property Services Pty Ltd (2004) 136 IR 449 WorkCover Authority of New South Wales (Inspector Hopkins) v Profab Industries Pty Ltd (2000) 49 NSWLR 700