Lessons From Longford: The Trial

Lessons From Longford: The Trial

An essential companion to Lessons from Longford and important reading for anyone involved in Health and Safety. This is a layman’s account of the outcomes of this critical trial and can be read as a stand alone report.

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Lessons from Longford: The Trial is vital reading for anyone who has read Lessons from Longford. Since the latter book’s publication, many significant events have unfolded including both civil and criminal court action, as well as significant new legal requirements.

Features:

This 68 page study examines these legal requirements and the trial, the first ever Occupational Health and Safety trial held in the Australian Supreme Court. Specifically, the report address a number of questions, including:

  • Why did the Judge say so emphatically ‘What happened was no mere accident’?
  • Are Health and Safety offences crimes?
  • How effective was Esso’s defence strategy?
  • What does ‘practically preventable’ mean?
  • Why did Esso not blame its control room operators at the trial, when it has blamed them at the Royal Commission?
  • Did the trial produce any findings about the causes of the disaster?
  • Would Esso have been at risk of conviction under the corporate manslaughter legislation which was proposed for Victoria?

Lessons from Longford was published in 2000 and examines the findings of the Royal Commission into the Esso gas plant explosion at Longford, Victoria, in September 1998. It is written by an expert witness at the Commission hearings. Two men were killed in the Longford accident, which ripped through the Esso plant with devastating consequences. Melbourne’s gas supply was cut off for two weeks, causing disruption on a wide scale.

Author:

  • Professor Andrew Hopkins is a sociologist at the Australian National University and has published widely in the area of occupational health and safety. He is author of CCH's Safety, Culture and Risk and Lessons from Longford: The Esso Gas Plant Explosion.

ISBN:

  • 978-1-86468-688-3


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