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This course takes about 40 minutes. You can stop at any point and pick up where you left off.
It is for directors, executives, business owners and senior decision makers. If you make or participate in making decisions that affect the whole or a substantial part of a business, you are almost certainly an officer, whatever your title says.
Two things this course tries to do at once
Tell you accurately what you are exposed to, and then spend most of the time on the thing that actually protects you, which is due diligence performed and evidenced years before anyone needs it.
A course that only described the offence would leave you alarmed and no better protected. The offence is the last unit of the story. The six steps in unit 6 are the story.
What it covers
- What the industrial manslaughter offences require
- Where they apply, and how they differ across Australia
- Who can be charged, including when an individual can be
- How this differs from a Category 1 offence, which people routinely conflate with it
- Officer due diligence, the six steps and which one fails
- What due diligence looks like as evidence rather than as intention
- What cannot help you: insurance, indemnities, contracts and delegation
What it is not
General information for Australia, not legal advice, and not a substitute for advice on your own circumstances or your own jurisdiction. If you are facing a prosecution or an investigation, get a lawyer today rather than reading a course.
Penalty amounts and commencement dates are deliberately left out. Every jurisdiction now has an offence, the elements and maximums differ, and any figures printed here would go stale. Your regulator publishes the current position.