- Title
- Bereaved families and the coronial response to traumatic workplace fatalities: organizational perspectives
- Creator
- Matthews, Lynda R.; Fitzpatrick, Scott J.; Quinlan, Michael G.; Ngo, Mark; Bohle, Philip
- Relation
- ARC.DP120103377
- Relation
- Death Studies Vol. 40, Issue 3, p. 191-200
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2015.1115787
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Work remains a significant source of illness, injury, and death in developed countries. In Australia, for example, over 2,000 people die from work-related causes each year, with heavy social, economic, and personal costs (Safe Work Australia, 2013a). Most die as a result of work-related disease. However, many die from trauma. In 2012, 223 workers were fatally injured in Australia and in the United States the figure was 4,383 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2014; Safe Work Australia, 2013b). Apart from the immediate tragedy of each worker's death, these deaths affect the victim's immediate family, wider family, friends, and co-workers. It has been estimated that, on average, every death has an impact on at least 20 other people (Dyregrov, Nordanger, & Dyregrov, 2003), especially when the deceased had several families, which is an increasingly common phenomenon (OECD, 2014). Little is known, however, about how regulatory responses following a traumatic workplace fatality meet the needs of surviving families. With a focus on the coronial investigation, this article provides information about the regulatory responses to a traumatic workplace fatality and examines how various organizations involved in the coronial process following the death viewed its ability to accommodate the needs and wishes of surviving families.
- Subject
- bereaved families; workplace fatalities; coronial responses
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1322665
- Identifier
- uon:24624
- Identifier
- ISSN:0748-1187
- Language
- eng
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