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Judgment date
Case number
A18/2000
Before
Gleeson CJ, Gaudron, Gummow, Hayne, Callinan JJ
Catchwords
Workers' Compensation (SA) – Injury - Statutory duty - Workman injured by collapse of structure negligently erected by employer - Structure could not have collapsed if erected according to design - Whether designer in breach of s 24(2a)(a) of the Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare Act 1986 (SA) in failing to incorporate in the design elements to remove risks arising from negligent erection of structure.
Words and phrases – "so far as is reasonably practicable".
Occupational Health – Safety and Welfare Act 1986 (SA), ss 23, 24.
Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1986 (SA) – s 54.