Posted: Apr 03, 2020 10:58 pm
by OlivierK
Various Australian jurisdictions are implementing or debating Industrial Manslaughter laws along these lines for workplace deaths that are a direct result of known-unsafe workplace processes, although there are concerns about their operation in practice (eg will middle management be held responsible for failings of upper management).

However, no Australian jurisdiction has considered equivalent laws to hold government ministers responsible for decisions that lead to preventable deaths in the same way. [/cynicism]