SO Cllr Martin Cox would like to point something out to me, would he (April 16)?

He must enjoy digging the hole he is in ever deeper.

What does a “relatively safe industry” mean to Mr Cox, those with five or six avoidable deaths a year?

And does he think the parents of a child killed in a school accident would believe that whatever measures it takes to avoid a further child’s death is “disproportionate to the risk”? I would also like to know who the “good citizens” he mentions in the last paragraph of his letter are? Who he says are “trying to help others”.

Are these the “good citizens” who put profits before people and are trying to help others into an early grave? Or are they the “good citizens” who, when an employee raises a legitimate health and safety issue, sacks them, then gets them blacklisted so that other “good citizens” do not have to be troubled with an employee who does not want himself or others to die at work?

I can think of another name for those “good citizens”.

Martin McMulkin Great Lever