Spanish trade union confederation Confederacion Sindical de Comisiones Obreras CC.OO has produced 28 April graphics that have been reproduced below.
CC.OO asegura que el COVID-19 revela la debilidad de la prevención de riesgos laborales en España
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Szanowni Państwo,
Międzynarodowa Organizacja Pracy ogłosiła, że tematem obchodów Światowego Dnia Bezpieczeństwa i Ochrony Zdrowia w Pracy – 28 kwietnia 2020 r. będzie:
Stop pandemii
Bezpieczeństwo i higiena pracy chroni i ratuje życie
Jest to odpowiedź na kryzys światowy wywołany pandemią, stanowiącą wielkie wyzwanie m.in. w zakresie bezpieczeństwa i higieny pracy. Światowy Dzień Bezpieczeństwa i Ochrony Zdrowia w Pracy skoncentruje się w tym roku na problemie zwalczania chorób zakaźnych w pracy, a w szczególności pandemii COVID-19 oraz na ochronie bezpieczeństwa i zdrowia pracowników podczas wznawiania działalności przez przedsiębiorstwa, które powinno przebiegać zgodnie z zasadami zapewniającymi ograniczanie rozprzestrzeniania się zakażenia.
Międzynarodowa Organizacja Pracy podkreśla potrzebę podejmowania specjalnych środków w celu ochrony pracowników służby zdrowia i innych pracowników, którzy w walce z pandemią codziennie ryzykują własne zdrowie. MOP zwraca także uwagę na wykorzystywanie na szeroką skalę pracy zdalnej, która nie powinna zaburzać równowagi między życiem zawodowym a prywatnym, umożliwiając realizowanie innych zajęć, takich jak opieka nad dziećmi, osobami chorymi lub starszymi.
Więcej informacji o obchodach dnia na stronie www.ciop.pl/28kwietnia
W dniu 28 kwietnia w godz. 15:00-16:00 MOP organizuje webinarium, którego celem będzie stymulowanie dialogu na temat znaczenia zapewnienia bezpieczeństwa i zdrowia w pracy, nie tylko dla ochrony życia pracowników, ale także dla zapewnienia ciągłości biznesowej. Webinarium będzie prowadzone w języku angielskim. Można się na niego zarejestrować poprzez stronę https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/safety-and-health-at-work/events-training/events-meetings/world-day-safety-health-at-work/WCMS_742138/lang–en/index.htm
Jednocześnie informuję, że materiały poświęcone planowanemu wcześniej przez MOP tematowi Dnia („Przemoc i nękanie w miejscu pracy”) będą dalej przygotowywane i zostaną przekazane do upowszechnienia w późniejszym terminie.
Z pozdrowieniami,
Dorota Pięta
Centralny Instytut Ochrony Pracy – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy
Ośrodek Promocji i Wdrażania
ul. Czerniakowska 16
00-701 Warszawa
International Workers’ Memorial Day takes place annually around the world on April 28 – it is an international day of remembrance and action for workers killed, disabled, injured or made unwell by their work.
Due to the current COVID-19 restrictions, Trades and Labour Councils (TLCs) around Australia will be holding their events online this year.
You can find details of the various TLC events here.
The ACTU has also prepared some shareables that all are welcome to use.
Australian Council of Trade Unions
Level 4/365 Queen Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000
t (03) 9664-7340 f (03) 9600-0050
e jholden@actu.org.au w actu.org.au
w australianunions.org.au
Facebook /AustralianUnions
Twitter @UnionsAustralia
Instagram @AusUnions
ETUC has today shared 28 April materials for general use prepared by their communication department.
The aim is to make a solid connection between the current Covid 19 crisis and more general health and safety issues.
ETUC has provided the materials in formats for Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (and also in editable formats so you can edit – add your logo and translate), a statement signed by ETUC and European sectoral trade union federations, and a list of short texts we will use with the visuals on social media.
ETUC will publish the statement and start posting on social media from Friday 24 April, with new posts every day until and including Tuesday 28 April.
You are encouraged to use the materials as you wish, to translate and adapt, and also to share/like ETUC posts . ETUC has full rights for photos so you can use them too. Don’t forget to use the hashtag #IWMD20, we are also using #CoronaVirus and #Covid19 .
Recognising the challenge that governments, employers, workers and whole societies are facing worldwide to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day – World Day for Safety and Health at Work – the International Labour Organisation (ILO) will focus on addressing the outbreak of infectious diseases at work, focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic.
The day will focus on addressing the outbreak of infectious diseases at work, focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim is to stimulate national tripartite dialogue on safety and health at work. The ILO is using this day to raise awareness on the adoption of safe practices in workplaces and the role that occupational safety and health (OSH) services play. It will also focus on the medium to long-term, including recovery and future preparedness, in particular, integrating measures into OSH management systems and policies at the national and enterprise levels. More
OBSERVE WORKERS MEMORIAL DAY APRIL 28
OBSERVA EL DÍA CONMEMORATIVO DEL TRABAJADOR CAÍDO 28 DE ABRIL
The AFL-CIO has released two new resources to help workers, unions and others prepare for commemorating Workers Memorial Day, April 28 — on the day itself and the weeks before and following:
1) Our Workers Memorial Day toolkit now can be found at: http://aflcio.org/2020-wmd-toolkit. This includes talking points, information on WMD events and actions, the Trump administration’s record on COVID-19 and other S&H issues, COVID-19 facts, national and state level data and other S&H facts, a flyer on emergency infectious disease standards, sample OpEds, LTEs, advisories and event releases…
2) Digital graphics for sharing around Workers Memorial Day: go.aflcio.org/-2020-graphics
As a reminder, all of the WMD artwork and other materials for download can be found here: aflcio.org/workersmemorialday
And please encourage everyone to submit their WMD events and actions here: go.aflcio.org/wmd2020
Please continue to distribute these widely — to lift up worker safety protections against COVID-19 and other safety hazards this year as we mourn for the dead, fight for the living.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lives and that of the workers in our sectors, with new risks and fears not only for health and safety but for our overall wellbeing and that of our families and communities. Given that the pandemic is affecting all workers worldwide, including building and construction workers and wood and forestry workers, our work as a Global Union to be united has never been as relevant as it is today. International Workers Memorial Day (IWMD) is on Tuesday 28th of April 2020 and the BWI will campaign theme is year is “Protect Workers! Stop COVID-19” We encourage all affiliates to incorporate our theme in your respective campaigns so that your members can be part of the global campaign.
There are other serious health and safety issues continue to be important and should not be put aside this IWMD. We know that more than 100,000 construction workers die each year in preventable “accidents” on site. Forestry workers are also confronted with dangerous conditions that are notorious in the sector. Health and safety are undermined by the reliance of the forestry sector on informal and subcontracting work to boost their profits. The cement industry is also highly hazardous and accounts for hundreds of deaths in worksite accidents, and thousands of workers in the sector contract occupational diseases each year. The heavy use of outsourcing is also largely responsible for the lack of coherent management of hazards at work.
Precarious work in the sectors organised by the BWI affiliates is being paid for by workers with their health and their lives. Thus, the BWI supports IWMD campaign actions taken by affiliates on the need to prevent the loss of lives in these sectors. For example, affiliates active on our Lafarge Holcim campaign are likely to protest together on worker deaths at the company and outsourcing which is a contributing factor. Also, the BWI Youth Committee is organising its IWMD campaign under the sub theme “Life before Profit”.
The BWI also supports continued campaign actions on our longstanding Ban Asbestos campaign; meanwhile, two million tons of chrysotile asbestos is being put into the built environment every year – guaranteeing a deadly legacy for building workers and the public.
We encourage all IWMD campaign actions by affiliates to be shared with the BWI. Please send photos, statements/messages and videos to info@bwint.org
The BWI has put together seven-point 28 April 2020 action list that affiliates can consider which we will be able to incorporate under our global campaign theme. We suggest that campaign actions are carried out between 20 to 28 April 2020.
BWI has developed posters that can be printed and shared online in various languages
As a part of their International Workers’ Memorial Day 2020 call to action the Hazards Campaign has produced a series of social media graphics (below) for you to share in your networks. The Campaign wants trade unions and activists to flood Twitter, Facebook and other social networks with these images and, include the hashtags #iwmd20, #covid19 and tagging @hazardscampaign
Sample graphics scaled for Facebook
Sample graphics scaled for Twitter
As normal public events for 28 April won’t be possible because of measures to contain coronavirus/Covid-19, the UK’s national Hazards Campaign has published its own 10-point plan for mostly virtual action. The national campaign says marking International Workers’ Memorial Day has never been more important.
“Some workplace events may still go ahead but we are taking #iwmd20 online, developing a social media campaign that we want everyone to join in,” The campaign says. “This will keep the day and its perennial aims on the public and political agenda with the slogan to ‘Remember the Dead and Fight for the Living’.
This year’s international theme has been changed by the global union confederation ITUC to ‘Stop the pandemic at work’.” The campaign’s 10-point plan includes displaying a series of print-off-or-order posters and other graphics in your window, posting selfies with the hashtag #iwmd20 and telling the campaign what you are doing and where.
The Hazards Campaign poster message is: “Whether the threat at work is another new virus, dangerous substances or heartbreaking demands, your life should not be on the line. Unions can make it better.” Tag lines for the union-led event, which has become the world’s biggest health and safety campaign day, include ‘Unions – Fighting for your life’.
The campaign is also supporting the ITUC’s call for people to light a candle (safely) in their window on the evening of 28 April.
Hazards Campaign 28 April call to action. Campaign materials can be downloaded for free, printed off, used online and in social media campaigns, as can a series of Hazards Campaign display boards.
TUC 28 April 2020 news and resources webpage.
Global action and resources: ITUC/Hazards 28 April website.
We dedicate our efforts to the upcoming Intl Workers Memorial Day (April 28) to our beloved Jin Sook Lee. It will be challenging to take action, but unions must not be silenced. We call on our affiliates to take part on this, starting 20 April. Protect Workers! Stop COVID-19! pic.twitter.com/BpPDYvfVdC
— BWI Global Union (@BWIglobal) April 16, 2020
