If by senior management you mean part of the c-suite maybe if he just knew his due diligence included to gain an understanding of the nature of the operations of the business or undertaking of the PCBU and generally of the hazards and risks associated with those operations then maybe that would have prompted him to pull his head out of the sand...One of the senior managers fall back response was "I only know what I know" Very frustrating and I should have barked back louder and told him to get off his backside and "go find out what he didn't know" — Jim at SAMs
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