Why is workplace safety important for the family?

Workplace safety is important to the family because a worker injured or killed is a family member injured or killed, and perhaps not providing needed income to the family. The goal of workplace safety is to reduce or eliminate the chances of a worker being injured or killed on the job. There has been a lot of families who have lost their son, husband and father to unsafe workplaces such as those in the mining and construction industries in the past.