When Kristy Kolomaka heard a man had died after a sheet of glass fell on him, she wanted to reach out to his family.
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Having lost her own husband in a workplace accident, she knew the shocking pain of being told your husband wasn't coming home at the end of his shift.
"I felt for that family, if I knew who the people were I would have called them. I just wanted to say 'I know what you're going through'."
It's been five years since Setaleki Kolomaka died at BlueScope Steel's Port Kembla site, after losing control of a steel lance, forcing a deadly blast of water into his chest.
Wollongong Coroner's Court found Mr Kolomaka's death had been avoidable and was the result of multiple workplace safety failings by his employer, Allied Industrial Services.
Kristy Kolomaka with her husband Setaleki.
Deputy State Coroner Ian Guy said a lack of proper equipment, inadequate training of supervisors, and the absence of a risk assessment, had led to the tragedy.
For Mrs Kolomaka, the emotions are still raw.
So news that seven WorkCover safety inspectors could be "sacked", was "extremely distressing" to the mother of three who thinks everything possible should be done to protect workers.
"Considering what we've gone through in losing my husband, to me, without those kind of people (inspectors) there to police things, it's distressing for someone like me," Mrs Kolomaka said.
"It took something like what happened for it to sink in that workplaces are dangerous. At the end of the day human beings shouldn't be a number, everyone has a right to come home.
"To have these people sacked, it's not fair for them and not fair for workers themselves."
Mrs Kolomaka said Easter was tough for her girls - the youngest only five when she lost her dad on May 22, 2008.
"She can't remember him ... knowing that it has happened to us, it can happen to anyone. That's what a lot of people don't understand or think about.
"It took my husband to die to get answers. So now to lose seven people who are there to help make sure our loved ones are safe at work and actually make it home, I think it's ridiculous to get rid of them.
"They (the government) should stop and think about people for a change instead of thinking about saving dollars."
