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Pressure for new killing law
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• MPs are stepping up their campaign to win parliamentary support for a new law against corporate killing, which was promised in Labour's 2001 general election manifesto.
Since 1997, more than 2,000 workers and members of the public have died in workrelated incidents, yet only four companies and two directors have been convicted of the offence of manslaughter.
An Early Day Motion tabled to allow MPs to register their support calls for larger companies to be held to account for causing death through grossly negligent failures of manage
ment. The briefing is published by the TUC, the Centre for Corporate Accountability and Disaster Action.
"This is not an 'anti-business' issue, it's 'anti-bad bosses'—our briefing shows why good employers have nothing to fear and a great deal to gain," says TUC general secretary elect Brendan Barber.
Meanwhile Labour MP Ross Cranston is calling for a law to require firms to appoint a director to be responsible for health and safety of employees, and to ensure compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.