{"id":59525,"date":"2023-10-31T12:51:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T03:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/31\/white-island-volcano-eruption-whakaari-management-found-guilty-of-astonishing-safety-failures"},"modified":"2023-10-31T12:51:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T03:51:32","slug":"white-island-volcano-eruption-whakaari-management-found-guilty-of-astonishing-safety-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59525","title":{"rendered":"White Island volcano eruption: Whakaari Management found guilty of \u2018astonishing\u2019 safety failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand Justice Evangelos Thomas criticised failures of safety audits given \u2018obvious risks\u2019 that led to 2019 fatal eruption<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A New Zealand court has found the owner of White Island\/Whakaari, the offshore volcano that erupted in 2019, killing 22 people, guilty on one charge of breaching workplace safety laws.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Auckland district court ruled Whakaari Management Limited (WML), the holding company of landowners Andrew, James and Peter Buttle, had not met its obligations to visitors to the volcano.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/31\/white-island-volcano-eruption-whakaari-management-found-guilty-of-astonishing-safety-failures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand Justice Evangelos Thomas criticised failures of safety audits given \u2018obvious risks\u2019 that led to 2019 fatal eruptionA New Zealand court has found the owner of White Island\/Whakaari, the offshore volcano that erupted in 2019, killing 22 peopl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4023,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,56,989],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-new-zealand","category-white-island-volcano"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59545,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59525\/revisions\/59545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}