Schoolgirl’s death

Safety campaign group Families Against Corporate Killers (FACK) has slated prime minister David Cameron for his message that “lessons must be learned”, after a 12-year-old schoolgirl, Keane Wallis-Bennett, was crushed to death as a wall at an Edinburgh school collapsed on her.

FACK said this was from the same person that who has described good health and safety as “a millstone” and who has vowed to “kill off health and safety culture”. FACK also pointed that Cameron’s coalition government had forced through the reclassification of schools as a low safety risk and slashed the Health and Safety Executive’s budget by over a third.

Louise Taggert from FACK said: “Lessons must be learned, most urgently by you and your government, whose approach to health and safety matters is deeply and dangerously flawed.

“You do not achieve that by trotting out your ‘deregulate, deregulate, deregulate’ mantra.”

www.fack.org.uk/news/deadlydereg.htm