Just to be clear, in case you think you are suffering deja vu, we covered this court ruling four weeks ago in this report on this website.
A week after that, I was at a conference and I asked a panel of lawyers and insurance experts if, for example, a cleaner servicing an Airbnb slipped on a puddle on common property and injured themselves, could the owners corp be fined under the workplace health and safety legislation?
The basic answer was “we don’t know” and “ask your insurer”. It all depends on whether an Airbnb is legally a commercial operation and, if so, do the cleaners and towel changers have appropriate insurance? I guess we won’t get an answer to that until the inevitable accident occurs.
But the one fact that was introduced was that the original strata manager, now long retired, is also being pursued by the WHS lawyers.