When Brooke Hampton was handed the reins of an automotive repair company by her grandfather, she adopted the unsafe practices of its employees including 96-hour straight on-call shifts.
His employer, YJ Auto Repairs, was on Wednesday convicted and fined $115,000 for breaches of workplace health and safety laws, including not having policies and procedures in place to protect employees from fatigue-related risks. Failing to apply the same advice to its own staff and contractors was a gross dereliction of their duty of care, he said.
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