28 April 2026 Let’s ensure a healthy psychosocial working environment
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The psychosocial working environment is defined by how work is designed, organized and managed, and the organizational practices that shape everyday working conditions.
Psychosocial factors – such as workload and working time, role clarity, autonomy, support, and fair and transparent processes – strongly influence how work is experienced and affect workers’ safety, health and performance.
When psychosocial factors harm workers, they become hazards which, alongside physical, chemical and biological types, must be addressed and managed to ensure safe and healthy working environments.
To mark the World Day for Safety and Health at Work on 28 April 2026, the ILO will share campaign materials, including a global report and a PowerPoint presentation. The report takes an organizational, prevention-focused approach and looks at psychosocial factors across three levels: the job, how work is managed and organized, and the broader policies, practices and procedures that govern work.
It’s seven weeks to go until Workers’ Memorial Day (Tuesday 28 April), so I wanted to share with you some of what you can share with reps, activists and Trades Councils to support their activity on the day.
Map of events Search on our map for a WMD event near you, or you can upload details if you’re organising something yourself. View the events map.
Online memorial wall
Some of these testimonies can be powerful to read out, as examples of union members who lost their lives to work causes. You can also add to the wall. View the memorial wall.
Health and Safety at work timeline
Some history on workplace health and safety in Britain. See the timeline.
Graphics
Print the poster for your union noticeboards, or include the banner in your email signature! Find them here.
Memorial Day in Parliament
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety and Health will be holding a memorial service on the morning of Tuesday 28 April 09:00 – 10:00, inviting MPs and peers to observe a minute silence together, and collect a memorial ribbon to wear for the day. Union members can encourage their MPs to attend the event.
The right to a safe and secure working environment is a fundamental right at work, and the ITUC will continue to bring visibility to the need to strengthen workers’ health and safety in advance of International Workers’ Memorial Day (April 28th). This year, the ITUC will give a key focus to psychosocial risks and will prepare a specific report on the topic.
Psychosocial risks are an increasing reality for workers across a wide variety of sectors and across all regions. This year, the ITUC will outline many of the key underlying factors contributing to generating increasing incidences of risks such as anxiety, depression and suicide – including job insecurity (temporary/gig work), unregulated long working hours, low levels of legal protection and enforcement, climate-related stressors, and the outsourcing of particularly hazardous jobs like data labelling and content moderation – disproportionately carried out under poor conditions in the global south.
A worrying trend of deregulation in many countries is reversing hard-won rights and protections secured by unions. However, unions around the world are mobilising, and the ITUC intends to bring visibility to highlight the many actions unions are undertaking, and the reforms that they are calling for, to support mental health at work.
While many organisations will have their own priority themes for 28 April, the critical issue is that unions mobilise to ensure the date remains the biggest and most effective global action to bring visibility to workers’ safety and health.
In preparing the ITUC’s forthcoming report, we welcome contributions about union experiences in addressing psychosocial hazards at work. These may include protective legal standards won or campaigned for by trade unions, collective agreements on stress and mental health at work, and union-led campaigns.
In the run up to 28 April, the ITUC would also like to hear about planned events and activities, as well as any related materials. Updates and resources will be posted on the dedicated website, www.28april.org. Please send details of your union’s work to rory.oneill@ituc-csi.org
Inteligencia artificial y digitalización: una cuestión de vida o muerte para los trabajadores En este informe de la CSI se identifican daños físicos y psicosociales generalizados en el trabajo asociados al uso de estas tecnologías, desde la sobrecarga cognitiva que supone para los humanos tener que trabajar en tándem con robots – cobots o robots colaborativos – hasta lesiones por movimientos repetitivos, estrés y depresión como consecuencia de objetivos inalcanzables determinados y controlados por algoritmos. Descargar aquí
Le présent rapport – Intelligence artificielle et numérisation : une question de vie ou de mort pour les travailleureuses – identifie les dommages physiques et psychosociaux couramment associés à l’utilisation de ces technologies sur le lieu de travail, lesquels vont de la surcharge cognitive touchant les personnes obligées de travailler en tandem avec des robots – les « cobots » – aux blessures dues à la fatigue, au stress et à la dépression en raison de quotas irréalisables fixés et suivis par des algorithmes. Télécharger ici
The 28 April ITUC report Artificial intelligence and digitalisation: A matter of life and death for workers identifies widespread physical and psychosocial harms at work associated with the use of these technologies, from cognitive overload as humans are required to work in tandem with robots — cobots — to strain injuries, stress and depression as a consequence of unachievable quotas determined and policed by algorithms. Download here
Journée internationale de commémoration des travailleuses et des travailleurs morts ou blessés au travail 2025 : protéger les droits des travailleurs à l’ère de la numérisation et de l’intelligence artificielle
À l’occasion de la Journée internationale de commémoration des travailleuses et des travailleurs morts ou blessés au travail, du 28 avril 2025, la CSI réclame des actions urgentes pour préserver la vie et les droits des travailleuses et des travailleurs à l’ère de la numérisation et de l’intelligence artificielle (IA).
Jornada Internacional de Conmemoración de los Trabajadores Fallecidos y Lesionados 2025: Proteger los derechos de los trabajadores en la era de la digitalización y la inteligencia artificial.
Con ocasión de la Jornada Internacional de Conmemoración de los Trabajadores Fallecidos y Lesionados, que se celebra el 28 de abril, la CSI ha hecho un llamamiento para que se adopten medidas urgentes destinadas a salvaguardar la vida y los derechos de los trabajadores en la era de la digitalización y la inteligencia artificial (IA).
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International Workers’ Memorial Day 2025: Protecting workers’ rights in the age of digitalisation and artificial intelligence
The ITUC is using this year’s International Workers’ Memorial Day, 28 April, to call for urgent action to safeguard workers’ lives and rights in the age of digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI).
BWI affiliate NUM held rallies across the country, in all nine provinces. The main rally was hosted by the union’s federation COSATU and the ruling party ANC in the Mpumalanga province.
The rally focused on workers’ contribution to the economy and industries, the plight of workers in the current labour context, strategies needed to assist workers in the anticipated labour context in the country and the region, workers’ OHS including silicosis, heat stress and other climate change effects in the workplace.
The rallies were attended by the country’s president and various ministers. More than 6,500 workers attended including approximately 2,275 women.
