Families unite against work killers
Families unite against work killers
Relatives of people killed at work have created a new national campaigning group to push for justice for safety crimes. Fack - families against corporate killers - says families bereaved as a result of unsafe and unhealthy workplaces are angry and frustrated. They feel they have been robbed twice: Once of their loved ones in incidents that should have been prevented by employers simply obeying the law on workplace health and safety; and secondly of their right to justice. Fack, launched at this weekend's National Hazards Conference in Manchester, says it will campaign to stop workers and others being killed in preventable incidents and will direct bereaved families to sources of support. The campaign is seeking urgent government action 'to halt the complacency about deaths at work and decent laws with will bring dangerously negligent bosses to justice.' Fack wants a review of the way work-related deaths are investigated and the way families are treated. And it says workers and safety reps must be given more rights to protect themselves against exposure to unacceptable risks to their lives and health. Hilda Palmer of the Hazards Campaign, which is supporting Fack, said: 'Fack has grown out of the pioneering work of individual families like Ann Elvin and the Simon Jones Memorial Campaign, and wants to create a united voice to all families devastated by a death at work.' She added that Fack 'aims to unite families in one strong voice to demand an end to work-related deaths and to direct bereaved families to sources of legal help and emotional support.'
- Fack news release and website. National Hazards Conference.
- Find out more: fack c/o Hazards Campaign, Windrush Millennium Centre, 70 Alexandra Road, Manchester M16 7WD.
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