In today's 5 Minutes we hear from Helen Fitzroy who's passion for workplace safety commenced following the death of her husband, Steve, in an underground mining accident in Norseman, WA in 1991.
The accident left Helen a widow in her early thirties with three young children to raise. At the time of Steve’s death, mining fatalities were largely ‘normalised’ by companies and government regulators.
The deaths were considered an inherent risk of the industry, with virtually no support offered to families to enable them to move forward with their lives. One of Helen’s coping strategies was writing. She wrote to her husband Steve, but also to herself and her children leading to the publishing of her first book some years later, “Just a Number”.
Helen Fitzroy joins us to share her amazing story of resilience and the coping mechanisms she has used, now live on the 5 Minutes for Me App! 🎤🎧⠀
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