Workplace Report June 2019

Health & safety news

Unions demand action on suicides  

Coroners should treat deaths caused by incidents at work as work-related fatalities, says train drivers’ union Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan. His comments came after train driver Scott Walker, a father of four, killed himself just months after a pedestrian completed suicide in front of his train. Whelan said the union will campaign for incidents like this to be treated as being work-related.

https://www.aslef.org.uk/article.php?group_id=6682

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/14/train-driver-killed-himself-witnessing-death-on-shift

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