Criminal Chamber rules on the crime of attacking the conditions of Safety and Health at Work

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The Seventh Criminal Settlement Chamber of Lima has convicted a General Manager as the author of the crime of Violation of Freedom to Work in the form of an attack against the conditions of Safety and Health at Work, imposing four (4) years of imprisonment. of freedom and the payment of S/ 180,000.00 as civil reparation.

In the criminal process, the General Manager was accused of not having diligently complied with Occupational Health and Safety obligations, for not having carried out an adequate identification of hazards and evaluation of electrical energy risks of a machine to which the employee was exposed. worker, which would have caused a fatal work accident.

At the discretion of the Chamber, for the configuration of the aforementioned crime, the following must be proven:

– Violation of occupational health and safety regulations, as well as administrative infringement of occupational health and safety regulations.

– The real and current danger to the life, health or physical integrity of the worker in a serious manner.

– The deliberate intention of non-compliance.

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