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Ordinary death a lesson says lawyer

A WORKPLACE health and safety specialist says last year's judgement against BHP for the death of a worker at Olympic Dam in South Australia in 2015 raised some interesting points about prescriptive safety versus discretionary safety.

 Olympic Dam is a massive operation

Olympic Dam is a massive operation

According to lawyer Greg Smith, the thoughts raised by the case should prompt organisations to think about their own rules and systems of work. The case centred on the 2015 death of a worker at Olympic...

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