So, in the past ten years 3,000 people in the UK have died at work and a further 200,000 have suffered serious injury (The Argus, November 30).

Yet this isn't treated as a disaster. Governments past and present should hang their heads in shame for not implementing far tougher employee protection laws, swingeing fines and imprisonment for negligent bosses.

-C Hopper, Montpelier Crescent, Brighton