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A New Zealand court has found the owners of White Island, also known as Whakaari, the offshore volcano which erupted in 2019 killing 22 people, guilty on one charge of breaching workplace safety laws. On Tuesday, the Auckland District Court ruled Whakaari Management Limited — the holding company of landowners Andrew, James and Peter Buttle — had not met its obligations to visitors to the volcano.
In his judgement, Justice Evangelos Thomas lashed “astonishing failures” of safety audits given “obvious risks”, saying Whakaari Management Ltd needed to take expert advice. “The expert evidence ... was also common sense,” he said. “In WML’s case, it should have appreciated that it could rely on risk assessment work being done by others to relieve it of its own obligation in relation to risk ... it needed to stop and re-evaluate,” he said.
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