I work in a dangerous industry

There was an incident 2 days ago at a heavy industry business a few doors from my place of work.
A 16 year old male was using an overhead crane and unfortunately he was standing directly below the suspended load.
Something gave way and the load fell on him. He died of a crush injury.
I use overhead cranes moving loads up to 10 tons. At any moment there could be equipment failure.
With this in mind, we never stand under a suspended load.
A 16 year old does not understand what can go wrong and it was up to his fellow workers to look out for him.
A tragedy that should never have happened.

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Gusman · 61-69, M

Company fined $975,000 for death of 16-year-old.

https://www.wa.gov.au/government/announcements/record-975000-fine-over-death-of-16-year-old-worker

Industrial Manslaughter laws were introduced in 2022. I have no idea why this was not enacted.

The offence will apply where those who have a duty under the Act have failed to comply with that duty and that failure to comply caused a death.
Only PCBU’s (a person conducting a business or undertaking alone or with others, whether or not for profit or gain) and their officers can be charged with industrial manslaughter.

The maximum penalty for an individual is 20 years' imprisonment and a $5,000,000 fine. The maximum penalty for a company is a $10,000,000 fine.