Workplace Deaths More Common Than Murder

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Or, as the authors say, "at least twice as many people die from fatal injuries at work than are victims of homicide".

The authors described this as "safety crime" (a term I have never heard before). And they suggest that Labour's light-touch regulatory approach to business is making it easier for employers to get away with it.

"What is remarkable about these unremarkable processes is how they attract little or no popular, political or academic attention," they say.

"Just as remarkable here is the contrast between this deafening silence on the one hand and the ongoing moral panic that characterises social responses to most 'mainstream' violent crime on the other."