Kay Catanzariti isn't giving up.
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Eight months after her 21-year-old son, Ben, died in a building site accident in Canberra, the woman from Griffith, NSW, is back in the capital, lobbying politicians for the cause of workplace safety.
On Tuesday Mrs Catanzariti was told to expect a lengthy coronial inquiry into Ben's death.
Her son was killed instantly when he was hit with the boom of a concrete pump.
He was working on an upmarket apartment development in the Kingston Foreshore precinct last July.
After attending the initial hearing at the ACT Magistrates Court, Mrs Catanzariti was at Parliament House meeting the shadow employment minister, Senator Eric Abetz, and senior staff members of Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten.
She brought her son's ashes with her, wrapped up in his cot blanket.
Mrs Catanzariti told the politicians she wants uniform workplace safety laws across the nation, laws that will be enforced.
"Workplace safety should be above politics," she said after her meetings.
"I feel that strongly, I will contact every family in the nation that has lost a loved one in the last five years and we'll make a stand for one.
"There's election time coming up … . It all starts from the bottom."
Ben was one of four workers killed on ACT worksites in the 12 months to November.
The territory's disproportionate death and injury rate sparked a full government inquiry and a sweeping reform package in the pipeline.
But Mrs Catanzariti says she wants to see a full overhaul of safety culture in the industry.
"I want safety back up there. And I want commonsense to come back into it," she said. "I want people to just slow things down a bit, take a step back and think what they're doing."
Mrs Catanzariti was supported this week by Ben's mate and fellow worker Cian Ebert, himself seriously injured in the accident that killed Ben.
The Yass man said that many of the men on the site on the day of the accident were still suffering.
He told The Canberra Times that bereaved families and friends were not being offered enough support.
"There's not enough that helps the people who suffer when someone dies on a job site," Mr Ebert said.
"In the aftermath it just seems to be filed away and that's the end of it."