A hearing to determine if Victoria’s health department will face trial over alleged hotel quarantine failures is set to begin.
Worksafe charged the Department of Health in September 2021 with 58 breaches of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, after a 15-month investigation.
More than 40 charges allege the department failed to ensure, so far as was reasonably practicable, that persons other than employees were not exposed to health and safety risks arising from the conduct of its undertaking.
Another 17 charges allege the department failed to provide and maintain an environment safe and without risk to the health of its employees.
A committal hearing, where a magistrate will determine if there’s sufficient evidence to support a conviction on the charges, is listed to begin in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday….