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Dying for a job: Avoiding the Blame for Work-Based Fatalities
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When the Labour Government was elected in 1997, campaigners expected that safety duties would be imposed on directors and that a new offence of corporate killing would be introduced. As a result companies could be prosecuted for serious management failures without the need for a director to be prosecuted first. It is only now (May 2003) that the Government has pledged to introduce legislation. If you calculate that 300 employees are killed every year as a result of accidents at work, then you can work out how many people have died at work since the Government was first elected.
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