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