A school teacher and tour company have been charged with workplace health and safety offences almost two years after two Japanese school students drowned at a lake on Queensland's Fraser Island .
The Office of the Workplace Health and Safety Prosecutor has now charged the students' teacher Shinri Minatoya with failing his health and safety duty by exposing the students to the risk of serious injury and death.His case is due to be mentioned in the Hervey Bay Magistrates Court next week.