Australia, April 14 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on March 17:
1. Pendle Ham & Bacon Pty Ltd (the General Partner) has pleaded not guilty to the following Category 1 offences:
a) that as a person with a health and safety duty under s 19(1) Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (the Act), it without reasonable excuse engaged in conduct that exposed Vinoth Shanmugalingam, Thavasthasan Ponnuthurai and Sedhurajan Velusamy (the workers) to a risk of death or serious injury and it engaged in the conduct with gross negligence or was reckless to the risk to an individual of death or serious injury, contrary to s 31 of the Act; and
b) that as a person with a health and safety duty under s 20 of the...