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Title: AMICUS The Union


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AMICUS The Union
  • ROB MIGUEL. M.I.O.S.H
  • Health and Safety Officer

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Why? Reforms need full Bite
  • Corporate Manslaughter on the back burner
  • Death toll rises at a staggering rate
  • Six Queens Speeches have come and gone
  • Dont be fooled by Rhetoric on figures
  • Accidental deaths are the tip of the iceberg
  • 1500 deaths work related incidents in 1year
  • 10,000 deaths work related diseases.
  • The scale of the carnage is massive

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Unincorporated and Crown Bodies
  • Doesnt follow European requirements
  • Sceptics of European policies
  • Right to life vindicated by criminal law
  • Fundamental right of all citizens
  • Government and responsible organisations
  • Exceptions and opt outs unfair and immoral

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Criminal Liability of Directors
  • Proposals target companies
  • No liability for individual directors
  • Small number of individual prosecutions
  • Mostly from small firms
  • Animals are treated more justly
  • 57 prosecutions animal 1 for human fatality
  • Directors Disqualification Act

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CONCLUSION
  • Amicus welcomes proposals
  • Accountability is unfair and long in coming
  • over ten thousand deaths
  • handful of prosecutions
  • Unions and workers demand justice
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