Work health and safety laws impose a proactive duty on officers to exercise due diligence to ensure compliance with those laws. Due diligence is a duty imposed on officers personally. It is separate from the duty imposed on their company.

The duty is also proactive - it can be breached merely for failing to put in place a corporate governance regime, even though there may not have been a WHS incident at the officer’s company.

The third edition of Due Diligence: Duty of Officers is an officer’s answer to any of their duty questions. It provides an overview of the officer’s duty and explores the question of who is an officer before carefully examining each element of the definition of due diligence.

The book also considers the liabilities arising from breaches of the due diligence duty and explores practical recommendations for compliance by categories of officers such as directors, company secretaries, chief financial officers, human resources directors, general counsel and operations management.

The third edition of the Due Diligence series explores recent case law and addresses contemporary work health and safety issues, including the new industrial manslaughter laws and the management of mental health at work.

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