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Articles

Trends in Prosecutions Under Occupational Health and Safety Legislation in NSW

An Overview

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Pages 67-73 | Published online: 03 Dec 2018

  • Paper delivered at a Public Seminar entitled “Occupational Health and Safety and Environmental Protection: Current Policies and Practices in the Social Control of Corporate Crime”, convened by the Institute of Criminology, 25 October 1989. An earlier version of this paper was presented to the Fifth Annual Criminology Congerence, Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, The University of Sydney, 10–12 July 1989
  • Formerly Research Officer with the NSW Department of Industrial Relations and Employment
  • Grabosky, P. and Braithwaite, J., Of Manners Gentle: Enforcement Strategies of Australian Business Regulatory Agencies (1986)
  • ibid.
  • There were also a limited number of prosecutions under the Dangerous Goods Act (1975) which were determined in the Local Courts. Between 1975/76 and 1982/83 there were an average of five prosecutions each year under this legislation.
  • Figures for the Annual Reports are supplied by the courts. Figures supplied to the occupational Health, Safety and Rehabilitation Council are made available by the Department's Legal Branch. A likely reason for the discrepancy relates to record-keeping practices within the Department.

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