Companies are being cautioned against treating built-in safety mechanisms as optional, after a crane collapse led to the conviction of an operator found to have overridden its warning systems.
Victorian County Court Judge Andrew Palmer found Misz Pty Ltd's actions in deliberately disabling a safety alarm system involved a "high degree of departure" from its statutory health and safety duty...
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