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Major update after 45 die in care home
St Basil's failed to train five staff on infection control and PPE use, leading to 45 resident deaths and 45 staff infections during the 2020 COVID outbreak, court found.
- On Wednesday, the Victorian County Court convicted St Basil's Home for the Aged and fined it $150,000 for failing to maintain a safe working environment during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
- Judge Trevor Wraight found "no ongoing supervision" to monitor which employees completed infection-control training, leaving five staff members without formal instruction on proper personal protective equipment protocols.
- While 45 residents died during the outbreak, Judge Wraight emphasized the WorkSafe prosecution was "limited to its failure to adequately train its employees," not the fatalities themselves.
- Family members slammed the $150,000 penalty as a "joke," with relatives of three residents calling the result "disappointing" and "absolutely ridiculous."
- St Basil's has since upgraded its systems and digitized record-keeping to ensure "the failures that occurred in 2020 do not occur again," though the facility faces an ongoing class action lawsuit.
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