ITF’s Paddy Crumlin highlights the Container Safety Now campaign on International Workers’ Memorial Day. more
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Sweden: Manifestation för döda i arbetsplatsolyckor
878 personer skadades i arbetet i Dalarna förra året och två personer avled. Idag uppmärksammas de i en manifestation. Mer
28 April activities in Wales
Wales TUC marked International Workers’ Memorial Day 2015 with a meeting and wreath laying ceremony.
Global: An up to the minute listing of global work fatalities
Several organisations, including the United Support and Memorial for Workplace Fatalities, the Center for Construction Research and Training, the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, NENYCOSH, the National Council on Occupational Safety and Health and Global Worker Watch have compiled a regularly updated global listing of worker deaths.
The same organisations have also have compiled the largest open-access data set of individual workplace fatalities collected in the United States to date.
USA: An interactive map listing 2014 workplace fatalities
Several organisations, including the United Support and Memorial for Workplace Fatalities, the Center for Construction Research and Training, the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, NENYCOSH, the National Council on Occupational Safety and Health and Global Worker Watch have compiled the largest open-access data set of individual workplace fatalities collected in the United States to date.
Also published is a listing of the details of 1,600 of the approximately 4,000-5,000 workers who die every year from a work-related injury in the United States.
Australia: Put out your boots
Did you know that 44 Australians have been killed at work already this year?
In NSW, in the past twelve months alone, over 100 workers have lost their lives on the job while someone suffers a major workplace injury every five minutes. More