Questão jurídica principal
Whether the appellants were criminally liable for negligent bodily injury by omitting roof safety measures
Decisão extraída
The omission could not be attributed to them because, in the horizontal division of labour, they were entitled to rely on D. SA to take the necessary precautions until its work was completed.
Fundamentação extraída
The Federal Court held that workplace safety rules required effective fall protection, but responsibility was divided between the contractors. Under the trust principle and art. 9 OPA, C. SA's employees could assume D. SA would secure the opening or warn them. No special circumstances displaced that reliance.