advocacy
One mom creates a safe place for thousands
Submitted by Rob on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 13:26.I ran into Shirley Hickman at the IAPA Health & Safety Conference yesterday. I was visiting the show with a new work colleague, so I introduced her to Shirley, who told her story: How her 21-year-old son Tim died in 1996 when a zamboni machine he was working on exploded due to faulty machine design.
I was struck again by the analogy Shirley uses to describe the lack of support in Canada a decade ago for the families of people killed at work:
