Sudbury work-safety advocate motivated by mining death of her father

A Sudbury woman says her father's death in a mining accident eight years ago made her the passionate advocate for workplace safety she is today.

Lisa Kadosa's father, Robert Nesbitt, was killed after he fell from a portable platform at Stobie Mine in 2006.

Kadosa was working in security and as a private investigator, but after her father's death she was offered the chance to train in occupational health and safety.

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Kadosa now works with the federal government helping develop occupational health and safety and speaks to workplaces on behalf of Threads of Life, a group for relatives of those killed on the job.

"I probably am more passionate than the average person would be in health and safety," she said.

Money an issue, Kodosa says

Nesbitt was a scoop tram operator at Stobie, which was then owned by INCO. Kodosa says he was doing some remote mucking when he fell and was crushed.

Kodosa said changes were made quickly to prevent a repeat situation, including banning shaky portable platforms and making controls more responsive. 

"It took me losing my dad to care about health and safety," she said. "I don't want that to happen to anyone else."

Kodosa said not everybody spends the proper amount of money needed for health and safety.

"I wait for that email or that message to come where I found out someone else's life was saved because they heard my message," she said.