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"Judgement call" overlooked fatal whipping risk: court

Training and instructing workers to maintain a safe position away from hazardous equipment, as opposed to installing physical barriers, would have been a reasonably practicable way to prevent a fatality, a court has ruled in finding an employer guilty of WHS offences.

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