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Our practical understanding of safety issues enables us to give you accurate, practical advice that puts legal compliance into practice.

We advise & represent clients in coronial proceedings to mitigate and, where possible, prevent adverse findings.

If the circumstances of a breach of health & safety law dictate that you should enter a guilty plea, it is important that you consider the ramifications of what you will admit & also that you take steps to reduce your potential penalty exposure. We have represented clients in many sentencing hearings enabling us to advise you on how to best mitigate penalties & adverse findings.

Our lawyers have acted in the only successfully defended health & safety prosecutions in Western Australia. Our further experience acting for clients in relation to a wide variety of prosecutions means that we can help you decide how to plead & liaise with the prosecutors & Courts on your behalf.

To investigate health & safety incidents/breaches you need independent experts who understand practical safety issues, obligations under the relevant legislation, codes of practice and Australian Standards etc. At S Billing & Associates, our senior lawyers have those skills & expertise.

We understand governance issues facing directors, officers & managers that relate to health & safety. We use our practical experience to guide, educate and advise business leaders on health & safety compliance, incident management & legal proceedings.

We understand the issues facing the WA mining industry, the practical application of the law and mining operations, risks and hazards. This means that the advice that we provide our mining clients is fast, reliable & pragmatic.

We have represented clients in relation to workplace incidents, fatalities & dangerous occurrences for the past 10 years. How you manage the first 24 hours is critical, we have the skills & expertise to help guide you through.