Families Campaign Group Condemn Corporate Killers

The BBC's news programme North West Tonight featured a news item highlighting the launch of a new pressure group campaigning for justice for bereaved families who have lost loved ones due to death at work.

The press release for FACK (Families Against Corporate Killers) issued last week, heralded the launch at last weekends annual Hazards Conference in Manchester:

"Fack is a group of families of people killed by work who believe that safe work is a human right not a privilege. They are angry and frustrated, and 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.

They are joining together to form a national campaigning network to make themselves more visible to government, to make their voices heard, to protest, to lobby , to demand urgent action."

FACK's first action was to ask Lord Hunt, the minister for health and safety at work, who was due to speak at Hazards, why people are being unlawfully killed every day and their killers are mostly escaping significant punishment.

According to HSE work-related fatality figures 220 workers and 361 members of the public were killed last year .

The HSE says 70% of these deaths are due to management failure.

Whilst breaking health and safety law is a criminal act, only 11 employers have ever been jailed for killing people at work.

See also: Centre for Corporate Accountability

Source: FACK

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