Deaths-at-work advice service

The Work-Related Death Advice Service (WRDAS) has been launched by the Centre for Corporate Accountability. It will provide advice to families or friends bereaved as a result of a work-related death.

The service will give advice on how to ensure that deaths are adequately investigated and that evidence collected during the investigation is fully scrutinised by the prosecuting authorities. It will also work with unions and lawyers pursuing a compensation claims.

Anne Jones spoke of the vacuum after her son Simon was killed at Shoreham Docks in 1998 and how an organisation such as WRDAS could have helped the family when they were struggling to get answers to what had happened and to bring those responsible to account.

The Work-Related Death Advice Service, tel: 020 7490 4494; e-mail: [email protected]