Case Studies Quiz – Topic 12

Harris Holdings Pty Ltd and Harry Zizikas, 2 November 2017.

PCBU and OFFICER

On 26 November 2015 a worker was fatally injured when he came into contact with the tracks of an excavator at a waste sorting facility.

After a SafeWork NSW investigation the defendants, Harris Holdings Pty Ltd and its director Harry Zizikas, were charged with a breach of sections 32/19(1) and 32/27(1) respectively of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011.

How would you predict the outcome of this court case?

Building Maintenance Unit Service Pty Ltd & Investa Asset Management Pty Ltd Feb/Aug 2019.

MULTIPLE PCBUs

On 20 October 2015, two window cleaners were seriously injured when the Building Maintenance Unit (BMU) they were using to clean the external windows of the building failed, and they fell, along with the BMU, from the 12th floor, at Sydney.

After a SafeWork NSW investigation, the defendant, Investa Asset Management Pty Ltd, was charged with a breach of section 32/19(1) of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (the Act)
and the defendant, Building Maintenance Unit Service Pty Ltd, was charged with a breach of section 32/19(2) of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011.

How would you predict the outcome of this court case?

Cold Spark Pty Ltd – Director Nathan Brian Day.

OFFICER

In February 2012, a Worker, Mr Garrels, was fatally electrocuted after carrying a switchboard that had come into contact with live wires during heavy rain at a construction site for
townhouses.

How would you predict the outcome of this court case?