Corporate Manslaughter
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Re: Corporate Manslaughter
Added: 10:36 07.03.2008
There's a tendency in looking at deaths in the workplace to focus on a couple of categories. I don't know if anyone remembers the Lyme Bay tragedy. One guy was in charge: they hit him with a big sledgehammer and he went to jail because they could identify him very easily. In other cases like the tragedies on the railways for instance, even though the man in charge of the organisation stood in front of King's Cross station and said, "It was our fault," there wasn't a similar response. We need to get to the point where, in Britain, we are able to bring senior executives immediately to task when someone dies in an organisation - in the similar way they do in the United States where the FBI turn up. The impact of that makes people at the top very, very aware that they're in charge and it's their responsibility. We don't seem to have the same concept in Britain. It may make a difference if there was that concept, but I think with corporate manslaughter there's an inference that maybe the man in charge won't get addressed, but the organisation will.
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