SUNTIMAVEN will hold an awareness meeting with the Company Placa Centro Sur Madera, Caracas Cemetery. A meeting to raise awareness of worker safety will also be held with workers at a wood warehouse.
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Turkey: Construction unions are pressing to realise the right of safety and health at work
BWI affiliates Yol-Is and Tarim Orman are organising a 28 April meeting dedicated to workers safety and health as fundamental human right.
Argentina: Young worker engagement, conferences, meetings and safety campaigns for 28 April
BWI affiliate UOCRA has many activities planned for International Workers’ Memorial Day 2023.
UOCRA will run a campaign on OHS compliance in construction sector disseminating flyers and showing videos defending a “healthy working environment” through UOCRA’s social networks, in memory of the workers who have died at work.
On Tuesday 25th April, a trade union training activity on OSH starts, which lasts 4 days, for young delegates of UOCRA, where the aim is to strengthen the application of the new fundamental right of the ILO related to occupational health, through the detection of risks in different stages of the work and the adaptations that must be implemented to control risks; among other topics.
A safety campaign on compliance in construction sector will be held. Posters will be put up at at construction sites, leaflets handed out, and workers will discuss issues related to improving working conditions.
A seminar with participation from a tripartite panel called “construction table” together with the construction employer sector, the Superintendent of Labour Risks, the IERIC (Institute of statistics and registration of the construction industry) and the UOCRA; where UOCRA will present the activities that they develop in the survey of working conditions, reporting, monitoring and training in OSH.
UOCRA will hold a safety and health conference Alongside CGT’s Secretary for Occupational Health and the Secretary for International Relations, an event with speakers from different sectors will be held at the CGT’s premises to commemorate the IWMD and to continue strengthening trade union actions for the improvement of regulations and joint actions.
Finally a ceremony will be hleld in memory of the workers who died at work – during the Ordinary National Congress of UOCRA
Peru: Meetings and forums on work safety to mark 28 April
FTCCP will hold an International Workers’ Memorial Day Forum on musculoskeletal disorders affecting construction workers, demand to reduce the weight of cement sacks to 25 kg, decree Nº 011- 2019-TR Safety and Health at Work Regulations for the Construction Sector. The 2 hour forum will have as speakers lawyers, ILO experts and trade unionists. The target audience is composed of workers and trade unionists.
FENATIMAP will hold a 28 April safety awareness meeting. They will hold a discussion on work safety and health for 20 forestry workers and technicians of the Export Wood Trading Company Tahuantinsuyoin in the locality of Manantay, La Chacrita, in Pucalpa, Amazonian region of Ucayali in Peru.
Ethiopia: Multiple safety actions by EIFMWCOTU on 28 April
EIFCMWCOTU is organising three workplace visits and tripartite meetings to demand the realisation of the fundamental right to occupational safety and health. The BWI affiliate will also organise work safety committees at five different companies and furthermore engage social partners on OHS.
Kenya: Safety training and capacity building to mark 28 April
Kenyan BWI affiliate KQMWU will hold a safety training session to promote awareness and capacity to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day
KUPRIPUPA will raise awareness on worker safey and health and commemorate IWMD through the planting of trees in workplaces.
Tanzania: Numerous activities will mark International Workers’ Memorial Day
BWI affiliates in Tanzania are planning multiple activities for 28 April.
TAMICO is holding organising through OHS campaign activities at four separate infrastructure project sites via social media campaign and face to face actions.
TUICO will conduct four joint OHS trainings/in-house training sessions, workplace visits, inspections and related media work.
Lebanon: GFBCTU holds awareness campaign to put ILO right to safety into effect
GFBCTU, a BWI affiliate in Lebanon, held an OSH awareness campaign at Holcim on 25 April as part of this year’s observance of International Workers’ Memorial Day. Members of the union said that OSH is a fundamental right of workers that should be recognised and prioritised by Holcim. #IWMD2023 #MakeItHappen
Scotland: 28 April events throughout Scotland
Events throughout Scotland – STUC listing
Aberdeen, Persley Walled Garden, Bridge of Don, Friday 28th April, 12.30pm for 1.00pm
Alexandria, Tree, Christie Park Memorial, Saturday 22nd April, 1.00pm
Alloa, Workers Memorial adjacent to Clackmannanshire Council Headquarters, Friday 28th April, 10.30am
Bathgate, Workers Memorial, Bathgate Sports Centre, Torpichen Road, Friday 28th April, 12.30pm
Bonnyrigg, Michael McGahey Memorial, George V Park, Bonnyrigg, Friday 28th April, 12.30pm
Coatbridge, Summerlee Industrial Museum, Heritage Way, Coatbridge, Friday 28th April, 12 noon
Dundee, Memorial Tree, adjacent to Discovery Point, Riverside Drive, Friday 28th April, 12 noon
Edinburgh, Memorial and Tree, West Princes Street Gardens , Friday 28th April, 12.30pm Falkirk, Callendar Riggs Saturday 29th April
Glasgow, Workers Memorial, People’s Palace/ Winter Gardens, Glasgow Green, Friday 28th April, 12 noon
Greenock, Grand Hall, Inverclyde Council HQ followed by wreath laying in Clyde Square, Friday 28th April, 11.45
Hamilton, Townhouse, Beckford Street, Friday 28th April, 11.45
Inverness, Workers Memorial Friar’s Shott/Huntly Street, Inverness, Friday 28th April, 12.30pm
Irvine, Memorial Garden, Kilwinning Road, Thursday 27th April, 6.30pm
Kilmarnock, Memorial Tree, Dean Country Park, Saturday 29th April, 10.45am
Kirkcaldy, Memorial Tree, Beveridge Park, Friday 28th April, 11.00am
Paisley, Workers Memorial , Renfrewshire House, Cotton Street, Friday 28th April, 12 noon
Renfrew, Workers Memorial Cairn, Robertson Park, Paisley Road, Friday 28th April, 11.00am
Stirling, International Workers Memorial Tree, Old Viewforth, Pitt Terrace, 10.30am at the tree
Global: How the Commonwealth is moving on safety
On this World Day for Safety and Health at Work (28 April 2023), the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), the world’s leading chartered professional body for people responsible for safety and health in the workplace, celebrates the 10 months that have passed since the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted a safe and healthy work environment as a fundamental principle and right.
With IOSH being part of the family of Commonwealth-accredited organisations, we’re doing this by focusing on the Commonwealth’s growing commitment to developing good occupational safety and health (OSH). So, here we profile OSH professionals from 10 Commonwealth players (including the Commonwealth Secretariat, in London) – one for each month since the historic ILO adoption – to show how they’ve each ‘struck a blow’ for the ILO… and an exciting new era for OSH around the globe.
Here are two of the 10 Commonwealth profiles (a voluntary association of 56 independent and equal countries), featuring the President of UK headquartered IOSH, Lawrence Webb and the Commonwealth Secretariat, based in London, but you can link to all the other Commonwealth profiles at How Commonwealth is ‘striking a blow’ for ILO | IOSH.