With a track record of preventing and managing complex HSE risks and responding to the market's most significant and high-profile incidents, Mallesons' HSE team are the lawyers of choice for the world’s leading energy, resources and industrial companies.
The energy, resources and industrial sectors continue to experience a number of serious workplace incidents resulting from poor planning, supervision and failure to follow procedures. For clients, questions around the competence and training of employees involved in incidents continues to match their concerns in relation to finding and keeping skilled workers. This concern is being exacerbated by the positive due diligence obligations of the impending model health and safety legislation and the ambiguity surrounding what is "reasonably practicable".
Providing on-the-ground support and deep sector understanding, we streamline the compliance burden and develop preventative strategies that are not only compliant but practical. Having handled the market’s most high profile HSE incidents, fatalities and environmental incidents (Montara oil spill, Beaconsfield mine collapse, Varanus Island explosion, etc), we understand the urgency with which incidents must be handled, the many stakeholder interests to be managed and the legal and commercial risks to be considered. In these situations, we can quickly mobilise experienced people with commercial thinking and an understanding of working with the media.
From compliance and preventative strategies through to incident management, public inquiries and defending legal proceedings, our team can support in the prevention, management and handling of HSE incidents.