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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Jasper Lindell

WorkSafe ACT needs in-house prosecution team: review

ACT work health and safety commissioner Jacqueline Agius, left, marks a minute's silence with Barney, Kay and Jack Catanzariti at the National Workers' Memorial on Thursday, a decade after Ben Catanzariti was killed at a Kingston construction site. Picture: Keegan Carroll

The ACT's work safety watchdog should establish its own team to prosecute workplace crimes as part of an overhaul to the way workplace incidents are handled, a review of the system has found.

But the Director of Public Prosecutions, Shane Drumgold SC, said the proposal was unrealistic and legally unworkable. He said "the report is replete with misrepresentations, unfounded claims and serious factual errors".

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