Category Archives: 2025
Jordan: GWTUC taking action against deadly dust on 28 April
From the heart of Jordan, BWI affiliate GTUCW is taking action! As part of this year’s International Workers’ Memorial Day, they are leading the fight against deadly dust, running the campaign across multiple workplaces to demand safer, healthier conditions for all workers. No more toxic air! Our lives depend on it! #IWMD2025 #StopDeadlyDust
Zimbabwe: Building a strong, safer movement – ZCATWU
In Zimbabwe, the BWI-affiliated ZCATWU is stepping up! Ahead of International Workers’ Memorial Day, they gathered workers for an awareness programme on the dangers of deadly dust, while driving efforts to organise and recruit more members. Together, they are building a stronger, safer movement — because every worker’s life matters! #IWMD2025 #StopDeadlyDust
Ukraine: Profbud – Standing strong for workers’ lives on 28 April
Standing strong for workers’ lives: BWI-affiliated PROFBUD joins this year’s International Workers’ Memorial Day, rallying behind the global campaign to end deadly dust in workplaces. Every worker deserves a safe and healthy job! #IWMD2025 #StopDeadlyDust
Italy: Safe Day – Giornata mondiale sicurezza lavoro: sindacati edili depongono corona all’Inail – FILCA CISL
Germany: Weltweites Gedenken an Arbeitsopfer – DGB Bezirk Sachsen
Heute ist #WorkersMemorialDay. Wir gedenken weltweit der Menschen, die bei der Arbeit erkrankt oder zu Tode gekommen sind. Die Beschäftigten müssen durch hohe Standards beim Arbeits- und Gesundheitsschutz besser geschützt werden! Jeden Tag! #StarkMitUns #IWMD #IWMD25 #IWMD2025 pic.twitter.com/YRPd5bzQmc
— DGBSachsen (@dgb_sachsen) April 28, 2025
Europe: Workers’ Memorial Day: ‘simplification’ is a threat to health and safety
(28 April, 2025) Today is Workers’ Memorial Day. We commemorate all those workers who have lost their lives at work. On this day, we cannot separate their memories from the legislative challenges facing workers in the European Union.
Workers’ lives are protected by national and European legislation. Health and safety laws are a achievement of the international labour movement – particularly in the EU, where there is a strong legal basis in the European Treaties to protect workers. However, these protections are in danger.
The current European Commission is leading an attack on its own rules and regulations in the name of ‘simplification’ – better known as deregulation – with the stated goal of making Europe more ‘competitive’. Numerous protections introduced to safeguard the environment, public health, working conditions, and other crucial aspects of our lives are now at risk. Prominent voices within the European Commission, including President von der Leyen, argue that these rules undermine Europe’s competitiveness. We are witnessing a dangerous pivot towards dismantling the European social model and all the protections it has developed for workers.
From chemical safety (the REACH Regulation) and data privacy (GDPR) to social and environmental corporate reporting, everything appears up for sacrifice to make businesses more competitive. For EPSU, true competitiveness begins with well-funded, quality public services: schools, hospitals, transport infrastructure, universities, and public administration. Prioritising corporate interests over human dignity must be stopped.
EPSU is proud to have negotiated with the employers European rules to protect healthcare workers from injuries from sharp objects. Equally important EU rules provide firefighters with standards for adequate Personal Protective Equipment and regular health checks and protect waste workers from exposure to hazardous substances, among so many other protections for so many workers.
Workers do not need health and safety regulations to be rolled back in the name of ‘competitiveness’ and ‘simplification’. On the contrary, the changing world of work – from teleworking and digitalisation to artificial intelligence and platform work – demands new protections to face new realities. A new ETUI study reveals that workplace stress is responsible for over 10,000 deaths in Europe each year. More than ever, workers need a dedicated directive addressing psychosocial risks.
EPSU will be at the forefront of the fight against the EU’s deregulation agenda. Workers deserve strong protections fit for the future – not weakened rules designed solely for corporate gain.
Philippines: Photos from EEI Grand Middori Project commemoration
World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2025 – EEI Grand Middori Project
Slovenia: 28. april, mednarodni delavski dan spomina na umrle na delovnem mestu | ZSSS
Od leta 1996 sindikati po vsem svetu na 28. april obeležujejo Mednarodni spominski dan na umrle in poškodovane delavce (International Workers’ Memorial Day – International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers) z geslom: “Spominjaj se umrlih in bori se za žive!” Namen je s kampanjami ozaveščanja počastiti spomin na žrtve poškodb pri delu in poklicnih bolezni. 28. aprila se po vsem svetu pregleda statistika umrlih zaradi nezgod pri delu in poklicnih bolezni. ZSSS od leta 2006 dalje na ta dan javnosti posreduje svoja sporočila o stanju varnosti in zdravja pri delu v Sloveniji. Glej spodaj sporočila po letih !
Več ITUC na tej povezavi in Organizacija 28. april na tej povezavi
Izhajajoč iz te tradicije Mednarodna organizacija dela (ILO / MOD) od leta 2003 vsako leto 28. aprila obeležuje Svetovni dan varnosti in zdravja pri delu (World Day for Safety and Health at Work) z namenom, da bi po vsem svetu spodbudila preprečevanje nezgod pri delu in poklicnih bolezni. Gre za kampanjo ozaveščanja, katere namen je usmeriti mednarodno pozornost na nove trende na področju varnosti in zdravja pri delu ter na obseg poškodb pri delu, bolezni in smrtnih žrtev po vsem svetu.
Več ILO na tej povezavi
28. april 2025:
Sporočila in pozivi ZSSS ob 28. aprilu 2025
Statistika varnosti in zdravja pri delu IRSD, MDDSZ, KIMPDŠ, ZZZS in ZPIZ za leto 2024
19/2025 e-novica ZSSS (22. 4. 2025): Revolucija varnosti in zdravja pri delu
- Revolucija na področju varnosti in zdravja pri delu: vloga umetne inteligence in digitalizacije pri delu, raziskava ILO predstavljena ob 28. aprilu 2025
20/2025 e-novica ZSSS (24. 4. 2025): Statistika IRSD ob svetovnem dnevu varnosti in zdravja pri delu
21/2025 e-novica ZSSS (25. 4. 2025): Hočemo novo direktivo EU za preprečevanje psihosocialnih tveganj pri delu!
22/2025 e-novica ZSSS (28. 4. 2025): 28. april 2025 – Spominjaj se mrtvih, nepopustljivo se bori za žive!
Poročilo o delu Inšpektorata Republike Slovenije za delo za leto 2024
Asia: On 28 April AMRC demands “Real change. Justice must not end with remembrance”