Unison – Workers’ Memorial Day video
ConnectiCOSH has published a list of numerous International Workers’ Memorial Day events taking place across April:
ConnectiCOSH
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Newington, CT 06111
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Światowy Dzień Bezpieczeństwa i Ochrony Zdrowia w Pracy 2024:
BEZPIECZEŃSTWO PRACY A ZMIANY KLIMATYCZNE
Szanowni Państwo,
Uprzejmie informuję, że na stronie https://bit.ly/ciop-safeday-2024 zamieściliśmy informacje dotyczące tematyki i obchodów Światowego Dnia Bezpieczeństwa i Ochrony Zdrowia w Pracy. Są tam: plakat Dnia (do druku), baner internetowy, infografiki, linki do nagrań seminariów oraz szereg materiałów źródłowych – m.in.:
Obciążenia cieplne pracowników w środowisku cieplnym i zimnym (pdf)
Zachęcamy do wykorzystania zgromadzonych materiałów.
Z pozdrawieniami
Dorota Pięta
Ośrodek Promocji i Wdrażania
tel. 22 623 37 22
Centralny Instytut Ochrony Pracy – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy
ul. Czerniakowska 16, 00-701 Warszawa
www.ciop.pl
Health and safety is our right
In the lead up to International Workers’ Memorial Day on 28 April, IndustriALL is putting the spotlight on health and safety in the workplace. A staggering more than 3 million workers die every year because of their work, and tens of millions are injured. Health and safety at work is neither a perk to be bargained for nor a favour to be asked. It is our right.
In a huge win for the world’s workers, in 2022, the International Labour Conference made health and safety a fundamental principle and right at work. That means that all ILO member states commit to respect and promote the fundamental right to a safe and healthy working environment, whether or not they have ratified the relevant ILO Conventions.
While fatal accidents have fallen, the fatal frequency rate — the number of fatalities per million hours worked, is not evenly distributed across sectors and regions, with mining, metals, ship building and ship breaking, textiles, electronics, chemicals, showing disproportionate impacts. Women workers face disproportionate risks of occupational health and safety exposure due to their reproductive and productive role in society.
“As IndustriALL we support our unions in their quest to stem the tide of deaths in the world of work. We will continue to fight for a better tomorrow with a focus on risk assessments and a rights based human centred approach to occupational health and safety,” says IndustriALL health and safety director Glen Mpufane.
IndustriALL Global Union is campaigning for and promoting a right- based approach to occupational health and safety that includes:
https://www.industriall-union.org/health-and-safety-is-our-right
Australian national union federation ACTU has welcomed a 22 March 2024 decision by the country’s Labor government and work health and safety (WHS) ministers to move closer to a full ban on engineered stone and implement new regulations to protect all workers from exposure to silica dust.
ACTU assistant secretary Liam O’Brien: “Next month we mark International Workers’ Memorial Day, a day where we remember those who have lost their lives at work and fight to ensure others don’t have the same fate. The passing of these protections is a fitting tribute and testament to the hard work of unions in keeping us all safe at work.
“Unions will always fight to keep workers safe from harm. Unions thank WHS Ministers for listening to workers and health experts in banning engineered stone. None of this would’ve been possible without the campaign of unions, like the CFMEU, and organisations that demanded strong action to keep workers safe.
“The war on silicosis is not over until these new rules are in place, properly enforced, and employers and workers are aware of them. The best way to protect yourself and your workmates is to join your union.”
The UK Trades Unions Congress is calling on all union safety reps to take part in the @TUC_Education week of action by signing up to inspect the risks in the building you work in.
More details on the Building safety inspections – week of action
Calling all union safety reps!
How safe is your workplace?
Take part in the @TUC_Education week of action by signing up to inspect the risks in the building you work in. pic.twitter.com/PM5FiFCiSi
— Shelly Asquith (@ShellyAsquith) March 27, 2024
Poland’s Central Institute for Labour Protection (CIOP) – National Research Institute, has announced that on 28 April its activities will focus on the impact of climate change on safety in the work environment. It says heat, extreme weather events, UV radiation or air pollution, increased exposure to hazardous chemicals, as well as diseases transmitted by parasites are some of the challenges we face due to climate change. It notes these factors can have a significant negative impact on our safety and health at work. CIOP is encouraging “actions that will raise awareness of this problem in your work environment and allow you to develop solutions to ensure safe and healthy work in times of changing climate.”
The AFL-CIO’s Workers Memorial Day web page is now live – orders can be placed for posters, stickers and fliers in both Spanish and English. Materials can also be downloaded here. The toolkit will be released shortly. AFL-CIO has selected the theme ‘Good Jobs. Safe Jobs. Protect Our Rights.’ The focus is on promoting contracts that ensures good jobs are fundamentally safe and also to protect and deepen health and safety rights. Affiliates are requested to share their 28 April events so AFL-CIO can help with promotion. 28 April queries should be directed to Ayusha Shrestra – ashrestha@aflcio.org
Construction confederation BWI member, CFDT, made a 28 April call to have heat recognised as ‘bad weather’ and thus allow workers to stop their work.
BWI affiliate ACV conducted a ceremony with invited Italian unions to commemorate the Italian workers who worked in the mines in Belgium.
FTGB, another BWI affiliate, reported the results of a survey investigating the impact of atypical working hours on workers’ well-being (weekends, nights, etc.). The headline finding is that ninety per cent of workers on atypical hours will not “be able to last until 65 years old!”