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2023, 2023 Europe, 2023 Ireland, Events listing, News

Ireland: Workers’ Memorial Day 2023

Congress, along with the Government, the Health and Safety Authority (HSA), Ibec, the CIF and NISO will collectively mark Workers’ Memorial Day Ireland on 28 April at the national and annual commemorative event to remember people who died, were injured, made ill and bereaved through work-related incidents.

Congress Assistant General Secretary Owen Reidy will be joined by Mark Cullen, interim CEO of the Health and Safety Authority, and Minister Neale Richmond TD who will lay a wreath on behalf of the State to remember those workers we have lost.

In Ireland in the ten-year period between 2013 and 2022, 461 people died in work-related incidents and many thousands more were severely injured or made ill. In 2022 alone, 27 people died in work-related incidents.

These are unacceptable figures which can be reduced through a combined and intensified effort by all concerned. By working together and promoting the practice of safety and health in workplaces throughout Ireland we will achieve a significant drop.

What can you and your organisation do to support this initiative?

There are a wide range of initiatives that your organisation can consider including:

  • Get involved in raising awareness by using the official Workers’ Memorial Day Ireland logo on your website, social media activity, presentations, email signatures, displays and in offices and workplaces. The logo is available at hsa.ie/workersmemorialday
  • Publish relevant website/newsletter content highlighting the importance of a positive and proactive approach to work-related safety and health
  • Host your own ceremonial event or minutes silence to mark the occasion
  • Publish appropriate social media content. For example, take a photo of your activity or event and share it on social media. Please use the hashtag #WorkersMemorialDay and #IWMD23 on any posts and tag relevant organisations, including @NISOIreland @TheHSA on Twitter
  • Add an overlay to your workplace or personal Twitter or Facebook account at: https://twibbon.com/Support/workers-memorial-day-11
  • Take this opportunity to host an in-house training sessions or a toolbox talk
  • Consider a guest speaker presentation to staff from an appropriate source, e,g. a Safety Representative
  • Issue a press release to your local/national media marking your event or the day itself

Workers’ Memorial Day Ireland 2023

2023, 2023 global, Events listing, graphics, News, Resources

Global: BWI Call to Action: 2023 International Workers’ Memorial Day

International Workers’ Memorial Day 2023 is annually observed on April 28. This year, BWI will highlight ways to put the right to safe and healthy workplaces into practice through the theme “MAKE IT HAPPEN.” This is an effort to celebrate and raise awareness on occupational health and safety (OHS) as a basic right.

Trade unions worldwide will carry out joint activities with employers and/or organise rallies to promote the implementation of OHS as a fundamental worker right. Activities will take place the whole week covering 24-30 April.

On 10 June 2022, the International Labour Conference (ILC) adopted a resolution to add the principle of a safe and healthy working environment to the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. With this groundbreaking development, Occupational Health and Safety is now secured as ILO’s fifth Fundamental Principle and Right at Work.

 

 

 

However, the time for celebration is over; we now shift our campaign to its full implementation. All workers worldwide must become conscious of this landmark agreement, and together, we will call on every government and employer to deliver a healthy and safe work environment.

445 joint declarations covering 480,000 workplaces and 18 million workers worldwide were signed by trade unions and employers calling for the recognition of OHS as a fundamental right leading to its adoption before the ILO. We will now go back to each and every employer who signed the joint OHS declarations and ask them to implement OHS as a right and MAKE IT HAPPEN. We do this by:

  1. Holding joint safety and health trainings at worksites.
  2. Conduct joint safety and health worksite visits/inspections.
  3. Hold candlelight activities and other commemorative events to honour all workers who lost their lives and/or were injured in the performance of their work.

For affiliates with uncooperative employers, we call on them to hold mass rallies and demonstrations in front of companies to protest their unsafe working conditions and poor safety records.

BWI regional offices will assist affiliates in carrying out one or more of joint activities with employer signatories, document their activities and distribute knowledge material and information posters.

Please share your plans with your respective regional coordinators.

We will include them on our dedicated website www.28april.org where various materials, activities and events are shared.

During BWI’s Week of Action, document your activities by:

  1. Taking photos and videos of your activities. Please dowload and promote our campaign posters online and offline.
  2. Issuing press releases and other media publications.
  3. Spreading our activities through social media using the hashtag:  #IWMD2023

Lastly, share all your content with your respective regional BWI communication teams.

 

 

2023, 2023 Europe, 2023 Scotland, Events listing, News

Scotland: Large listing of Scottish 28 April events

Scottish Hazards has published a large listing of 28 April events.

2023, 2023 Europe, 2023 Scotland, Events listing, News

Scotland: 28 April gathering in Edinburgh organised by Scottish Hazards and Edinburgh TUC

Edinburgh Trade Union Council and Scottish Hazards have organised a gathering to remember those who have died at work and to refresh the resolve to fight for safe and healthy working conditions in Scotland and throughout the world.

The organisations have issued a broad invite to come and speak for your family, your union or your organisation. The theme is organising for safe and healthy work and will feature speakers from trade union and bereaved families.

The event will take place at the Workers’ Memorial Day Tree at Princes Street Gardens – nearest entrance is the west side of the mound going down the lowest path.

28 April 2023, 12.30-1.30pm

2023, 2023 Poland, Events listing, News

Poland: Światowy Dzień Bezpieczeństwa i Ochrony Zdrowia w Pracy 2023

Tematem tegorocznych obchodów Światowego Dnia Bezpieczeństwa i Ochrony Zdrowia w Pracy (28 kwietnia 2023 r.) jest:

Bezpieczna praca podstawowym prawem każdego pracownika

(A safe and healthy working environment is a fundamental principle and right at work)

27 kwietnia odbędzie się uroczysta sesja Rady Ochrony Pracy przy Sejmie RP poświęcona tematyce obchodów.

28 kwietnia br. Centralny Instytut Ochrony Pracy – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy organizuje wideokonferencję pt. „Jak pracować bezpiecznie – niezbędnik młodego pracownika”, dedykowaną studentom, uczniom oraz młodym pracownikom. Tematem konferencji będzie bezpieczeństwo pracy osób młodych oraz funkcjonowanie systemu ochrony pracy na poziomie firm i organizacji.

Do obchodów Dnia w Polsce włączają się różne przedsiębiorstwa i organizacje, m.in.: Ogólnopolskie Stowarzyszenie Związków Zawodowych organizuje Tydzień Bezpieczeństwa Pracy z wystawą plakatów bhp (24-28 kwietnia, Warszawa), Oddział Zakładu Ubezpieczeń Społecznych w Rzeszowie wspólnie z Wojewódzką Stacją Sanitarno-Epidemiologiczną w Rzeszowie planują zorganizowanie konferencji tematycznej (21 kwietnia, Rzeszów), a wiele firm organizuje dla swoich pracowników spotkania promujące bezpieczeństwo i zdrowie w pracy.

Więcej informacji o obchodach Dnia na stronie https://bit.ly/ciop-safeday-2023.

Materiały związane z obchodami będą się tam sukcesywnie pojawiać.

2023, 2023 Europe, 2023 Wales, Events listing, News

Wales: Cardiff – Workers’ Memorial Day / Caerdydd – Diwrnod Cofiant y Gweithwyr

Wales TUC has issued an invitation to attend their National Workers’ Memorial Day event. There will refreshments followed by a short ceremony to lay wreaths at the National Workers’ Memorial Stone (pictured above). The meeting will be attended  by dignitaries including trade union leaders.

Friday, 28 April 2023 10:00-11:00 AM BST
Unite House
1 Cathedral Road
Cardiff, Wales,
CF11 9SD

TUC listing of UK events

2023, 2023 Belgium, 2023 Europe, Events listing, News

Belgium: MPLP organises colloquium on the links between health and work

Housekeepers with damaged wrists, burnt out nurses, drivers who suffer from major back problems: Working conditions undeniably have a significant impact on our health.

April 28, 2023 is the International Day for Safety and Health at Work. With Medicine for the People, we want to take the time of a day to explore different aspects of the link between work and health. We propose an original formula, which links theory and practical experience, with researchers, doctors, trade unionists, activists and anyone interested or having something interesting to say on the subject. In this way, we want to raise awareness of this important day of action and campaigning.

We are pleased to announce that an international expert, Joan Benach, from the University of Barcelona, has already agreed to participate in our event. He will give an introduction and will also participate in establishing the conclusions of the day. Dr. Benach led the research group that, exactly 15 years ago, produced a major World Health Organization report on the importance of healthy working conditions as a social determinant of health.

During this day, we will bring together researchers, doctors and trade unionists to reflect on different aspects of work and health: stress and burn-out, musculoskeletal disorders, toxic substances, precarious working conditions, etc. We will talk about problems but also about examples of struggles. And finally, we will define the challenges to be met.

The event will be held in Brussels, in Dutch and French. Simultaneous translation will be provided and accreditation for doctors is requested.

See you on Saturday 28 April 2023 in Brussels, room of the House of International Associations from 9.30 am to 5 pm. Doors open at 9am.

For more information, visit our website.

 

2023, 2023 Belgium, 2023 Europe, Events listing, News

Belgium: MPLP organise un colloque sur les liens entre santé et travail

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Des aides ménagères aux poignets abîmés, des puéricultrices en burn-out, des chauffeurs qui souffrent de gros problèmes de dos : Les conditions de travail ont indéniablement un impact important sur notre santé.

Le 28 avril 2023, c’est la journée internationale de la sécurité et de la santé au travail. Avec Médecine pour le Peuple, nous voulons prendre le temps d’une journée pour explorer différents aspects du lien entre le travail et la santé. Nous proposons une formule originale, qui lie la théorie et l’expérience pratique, avec des chercheurs, des médecins, des syndicalistes, des militants et toute personne intéressée ou ayant quelque chose d’intéressant à dire sur le sujet. De cette manière, nous voulons faire connaître davantage cette importante journée d’action et de campagne.

Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer qu’un expert international, Joan Benach, de l’Université de Barcelone, a déjà accepté de participer à notre événement. Il donnera une introduction et participera également à établir les conclusions de la journée. Le Dr Benach a dirigé le groupe de recherche qui, il y a exactement 15 ans, a rédigé un rapport majeur de l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé sur l’importance de conditions de travail saines en tant que déterminant social de la santé.

Au cours de cette journée, nous réunirons des chercheurs, des médecins et des syndicalistes pour réfléchir aux différents aspects du travail et de la santé : le stress et le burn-out, les troubles musculo- squelettiques, les substances toxiques, des conditions de travail précaires, etc… Nous parlerons des problèmes mais aussi d’exemples de luttes. Et enfin, nous définirons les défis à relever.

L’événement se tiendra à Bruxelles, en néerlandais et en français. Une traduction simultanée sera assurée et l’accréditation pour les médecins est demandée.

Rendez-vous le samedi 28 avril 2023 à Bruxelles, salle de la Maison des Associations Internationales de 9h30 à 17 heures. Ouverture des portes à 9h.

Pour plus d’infos, RDV sur notre site web.

2023, 2023 USA, Events listing, News, Resources

USA: AFL-CIO – Workers Memorial Day 2023 – Organize! Safe Jobs Now

   

AFL-CIO’s Workers Memorial Day web page is  live! – and available for you to order materials and download artwork to use for your events, trainings, conferences, newsletters, and more. aflcio.org/WorkersMemorialDay

Each year since 1989, we commemorate this day to honor those we have lost on the job and we will organize to make the fundamental right of a safe job a reality for all workers. This year’s theme is “Organize! Safe Jobs Now.” focusing on dignity at work, the growth of the labor movement and equity through safe workplaces.

Please join us this April 28 to honor the victims of workplace injury and illness and the call to organize safe jobs for all workers. As we do every year, trade unionists around the country and globe will organize our communities and workplaces to observe Workers Memorial Day. We will highlight the toll of job injuries and deaths; demand that elected officials put workers’ well-being above corporate interests; and demand safe jobs for all. This year, and every year, the labor movement will defend the right of every worker to a safe job and build collective power to make that right a reality.

We can’t do this alone, and together, we need to organize all workers in this fight for safer working conditions. We are building campaigns leading up to the end of April and throughout the year to mourn and fight.

Please use the resources below when planning for this year’s Workers Memorial Day and reach out to us with any questions, concerns, comments along the way.

Materials and Artwork:

Please visit this page to view and download this year’s materials and artwork. These include posters, stickers, and fliers in English and Spanish. Stickers are available for “Organize! Safe Jobs Now” and for “Mourn for the Dead. Fight for the Living.”

Please place your order for materials here. You can either pick up materials in person at our Washington DC headquarters or have them shipped to you.

Workers Memorial Day Events:

We want to hear about your Workers Memorial Day plans! Please share your event with us so that we can include it on our map of events across the country. Plan events, actions, activities and observances with suggestions in our flier.

Toolkit Coming Soon:

We are working expediently to distribute more materials to help you plan your commemorations and advocacy efforts. These include talking points, sample materials for media outreach, worker safety and health facts, state-by-state safety and health data, fact sheets, digital resources, infographics and more.

How to reach out to us about Workers Memorial Day:

oshmail@aflcio.org or 202-637-5047

Hashtags you can use to build solidarity online around Workers Memorial Day: 

#iwmd2023 #WorkersMemorialDay #1uSafety

Please note: Our annual report, Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect, will be published at the end of April. You can place orders now for a hard copy of the report, and it will be shipped later. It will also be available electronically.

Come organize with us!

aflcio.org/workersmemorialday

2023, 2023 Europe, 2023 Netherlands, Events listing, News

Netherlands: FNV Symposium Workers’ Memorial Day

FNV Symposium Workers’ Memorial Day

https://www.fnv.nl/werk-inkomen/veilig-gezond-werken/bedrijfsongevallen/workers-memorial-day

On the 28th of April the Dutch National Trade Union FNV and the Foundation for Work Related Accidents (Stichting Arbeidsongevallen) will organise a symposium at Schiphol Amsterdam Airport in honour of the Workers’ Memorial Day.

Central topic will be that occupational health and safety is a fundamental workers’ right. In the Netherlands every year over 4000 workers die due to work related accidents or diseases. This is unacceptable!

The symposium will have presentations from Kitty Jong, vice president of FNV, Hanneke van den Bout, director Health and Safety of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, Rits de Boer, Inspector General of the Dutch Labour Inspection and Jan Warning, director of Institute of Victims of Occupational Diseases by Hazardous Substances (ISBG).

There will also be various presentations by workers about their experiences at the airport work floor of Schiphol. These workers, like luggage handlers, face very harsh safety and health conditions and are only paid minimum wages.

The foundation for Work Related Accidents will present results of their research on work related accidents among precarious workers.

At the end of the event the Laura Brugmans award will be handed out. Laura Brugmans was one of the founders of the Foundation for Work Related Accidents.

(https://www.stichtingarbeidsongevallen.nl/in-memoriam-laura-brugmans/)

More information on FNV’s policy for OSH

https://www.fnv.nl/werk-inkomen/veilig-gezond-werken

https://www.fnv.nl/nieuwsbericht/sectornieuws/schiphol/2022/01/nieuwe-minister-moet-haast-maken-met-arbeidsomstan

https://www.fnv.nl/nieuwsbericht/algemeen-nieuws/2022/12/minister-van-gennip-tekent-europees-vakbondsmanife