The number of workers dying from industrial harm has reached the highest level since 2019, figures indicate, prompting calls for urgent reform of corporate homicide legislation.
The Scottish Trades Union Congress and Scottish Hazards, the national charity for safety at work, published the research showing 21 workers died in the past year, almost double the 2019 total of 11.
The figures have prompted calls for the Scottish Government to replace the Corporate Homicide Act with reformed legislation to introduce new statutory offences to hold companies and corporations to account for workplace deaths. STUC general secretary Roz Foyer said: “It’s incumbent on Scotland’s trade union movement to remember all those who have died at work and pledge to make the workplace safer in their honour.who have died at work has increased.and safety and they must be held accountable.
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