Standing strong for workers’ lives: BWI-affiliated PROFBUD joins this year’s International Workers’ Memorial Day, rallying behind the global campaign to end deadly dust in workplaces. Every worker deserves a safe and healthy job! #IWMD2025 #StopDeadlyDust
In occasione della giornata mondiale per la salute e sicurezza sul lavoro, i rappresentanti di Feneal, Filca, Fillea, le categorie che tutelano il settore delle costruzioni di Cgil, Cisl e Uil, si sono recati presso la sede dell’Inail a Piazzale Pastore, per deporre una corona di fiori davanti al monumento in memoria degli operai che persero la vita durante lo scavo del traforo di San Gottardo. Prima della deposizione i rappresentanti hanno avuto un incontro con il direttore generale Marcello Fiori, un momento di confronto per analizzare e valutare le misure per la prevenzione degli infortuni e le malattie professionali e anche riguardanti i nuovi rischi connessi alla rivoluzione digitale e alla riorganizzazione del mondo del lavoro.
“Quello di oggi è un appuntamento di grande importanza – sottolinea Marcello Fiori – che rende omaggio alle vittime sul lavoro e testimonia la imprescindibile necessità di un impegno comune tra le parti sociali e le Istituzioni nell’azione di contrasto alla tragedia degli infortuni sul lavoro e delle malattie professionali. Restano fortissime le parole pronunciate da Papa Francesco in occasione dell’udienza dedicata all’Inail: senza tutele e sicurezza per i lavoratori prevale nella società, la cultura dello “scarto”. Rimettere al centro la persona significa “vedere, avere compassione, farsi vicini, fasciare le ferite, farsi carico” e considerare tutti gli infortunati, persone e non numeri. Missione fondamentale dell’Istituto deve essere quella della prevenzione che richiede un accordo, un impegno corale e il pieno coinvolgimento di tutte le Istituzioni e le parti sociali, come il Presidente della Repubblica ci esorta energicamente a realizzare, per mettere in campo tutti gli strumenti necessari: norme tecniche aggiornate e puntuali, informazione e formazione dei lavoratori e dei responsabili per la sicurezza, incentivi e finanziamenti al sistema delle imprese per innovazione tecnologica e sistemi di gestione per la salute e la sicurezza, un efficace e diffuso sistema di controlli”.
“I numeri – dichiarano i segretari di FenealUil, Filca Cisl e Fillea Cgil– continuano ad essere preoccupanti, con 1.090 vittime nel 2024, 49 in più rispetto al 2023, di cui 156 nelle costruzioni, che si riconferma tra i settori più a rischio. Gli infortuni in più rispetto all’anno precedente sono stati 4.215, e 15.745 le denunce di malattie professionali. Anche oggi c’è stato un incidente mortale sul lavoro nella cava di marmo di Miseglia costato la vita ad un uomo di 59 anni.
In questa giornata così importante le nostre categorie, che combattono ogni giorno per contrastare le irregolarità, tutelare i lavoratori e cambiare la cultura sulla sicurezza sul lavoro, avviano una fase collaborativa con Inail, attraverso un tavolo permanente sulla prevenzione in materia di salute e sicurezza che ci auguriamo porterà alla sottoscrizione di un protocollo operativo, in grado di generare effetti concreti quanto prima”.
Heute ist #WorkersMemorialDay. Wir gedenken weltweit der Menschen, die bei der Arbeit erkrankt oder zu Tode gekommen sind. Die Beschäftigten müssen durch hohe Standards beim Arbeits- und Gesundheitsschutz besser geschützt werden! Jeden Tag! #StarkMitUns #IWMD #IWMD25 #IWMD2025 pic.twitter.com/YRPd5bzQmc
— DGBSachsen (@dgb_sachsen) April 28, 2025
(28 April, 2025) Today is Workers’ Memorial Day. We commemorate all those workers who have lost their lives at work. On this day, we cannot separate their memories from the legislative challenges facing workers in the European Union.
Workers’ lives are protected by national and European legislation. Health and safety laws are a achievement of the international labour movement – particularly in the EU, where there is a strong legal basis in the European Treaties to protect workers. However, these protections are in danger.
The current European Commission is leading an attack on its own rules and regulations in the name of ‘simplification’ – better known as deregulation – with the stated goal of making Europe more ‘competitive’. Numerous protections introduced to safeguard the environment, public health, working conditions, and other crucial aspects of our lives are now at risk. Prominent voices within the European Commission, including President von der Leyen, argue that these rules undermine Europe’s competitiveness. We are witnessing a dangerous pivot towards dismantling the European social model and all the protections it has developed for workers.
From chemical safety (the REACH Regulation) and data privacy (GDPR) to social and environmental corporate reporting, everything appears up for sacrifice to make businesses more competitive. For EPSU, true competitiveness begins with well-funded, quality public services: schools, hospitals, transport infrastructure, universities, and public administration. Prioritising corporate interests over human dignity must be stopped.
EPSU is proud to have negotiated with the employers European rules to protect healthcare workers from injuries from sharp objects. Equally important EU rules provide firefighters with standards for adequate Personal Protective Equipment and regular health checks and protect waste workers from exposure to hazardous substances, among so many other protections for so many workers.
Workers do not need health and safety regulations to be rolled back in the name of ‘competitiveness’ and ‘simplification’. On the contrary, the changing world of work – from teleworking and digitalisation to artificial intelligence and platform work – demands new protections to face new realities. A new ETUI study reveals that workplace stress is responsible for over 10,000 deaths in Europe each year. More than ever, workers need a dedicated directive addressing psychosocial risks.
EPSU will be at the forefront of the fight against the EU’s deregulation agenda. Workers deserve strong protections fit for the future – not weakened rules designed solely for corporate gain.
World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2025 – EEI Grand Middori Project
Od leta 1996 sindikati po vsem svetu na 28. april obeležujejo Mednarodni spominski dan na umrle in poškodovane delavce (International Workers’ Memorial Day – International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers) z geslom: “Spominjaj se umrlih in bori se za žive!” Namen je s kampanjami ozaveščanja počastiti spomin na žrtve poškodb pri delu in poklicnih bolezni. 28. aprila se po vsem svetu pregleda statistika umrlih zaradi nezgod pri delu in poklicnih bolezni. ZSSS od leta 2006 dalje na ta dan javnosti posreduje svoja sporočila o stanju varnosti in zdravja pri delu v Sloveniji. Glej spodaj sporočila po letih !
Več ITUC na tej povezavi in Organizacija 28. april na tej povezavi
Izhajajoč iz te tradicije Mednarodna organizacija dela (ILO / MOD) od leta 2003 vsako leto 28. aprila obeležuje Svetovni dan varnosti in zdravja pri delu (World Day for Safety and Health at Work) z namenom, da bi po vsem svetu spodbudila preprečevanje nezgod pri delu in poklicnih bolezni. Gre za kampanjo ozaveščanja, katere namen je usmeriti mednarodno pozornost na nove trende na področju varnosti in zdravja pri delu ter na obseg poškodb pri delu, bolezni in smrtnih žrtev po vsem svetu.
Več ILO na tej povezavi
Sporočila in pozivi ZSSS ob 28. aprilu 2025
Statistika varnosti in zdravja pri delu IRSD, MDDSZ, KIMPDŠ, ZZZS in ZPIZ za leto 2024
19/2025 e-novica ZSSS (22. 4. 2025): Revolucija varnosti in zdravja pri delu
20/2025 e-novica ZSSS (24. 4. 2025): Statistika IRSD ob svetovnem dnevu varnosti in zdravja pri delu
21/2025 e-novica ZSSS (25. 4. 2025): Hočemo novo direktivo EU za preprečevanje psihosocialnih tveganj pri delu!
22/2025 e-novica ZSSS (28. 4. 2025): 28. april 2025 – Spominjaj se mrtvih, nepopustljivo se bori za žive!
Poročilo o delu Inšpektorata Republike Slovenije za delo za leto 2024
Miles de trabajadores se enfrentan a violencia, agresiones y acoso en el trabajo. Sara García, sec.
“Thousands of workers face violence, assaults, and harassment at work. Sara García, sec. This 28 April we demand urgent measures and greater protection for the victims.”
: Este #28Abril exigimos medidas urgentes y mayor protección para las víctimas. #StopViolenciaEnElTrabajo #IWMD25
🚨 Miles de trabajadores se enfrentan a violencia, agresiones y acoso
en el trabajo.
🗣 Sara García, sec. @AccionsindUSO: Este #28Abril exigimos
medidas urgentes y mayor protección para las víctimas.#StopViolenciaEnElTrabajo #IWMD25 pic.twitter.com/yMtUqpg9oG— Acción Sindical USO (@AccionsindUSO) April 28, 2025
This 28 April, International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD), the global trade union movement is focusing on technology and workplace health and safety.
UNI is bringing together content moderators from around the world for the first-time ever to Nairobi, Kenya, to build a shared strategy for making their jobs safe, sustainable and union.
Content moderators, who shield billions of social media users from harmful and traumatic material, are exposed to hundreds of videos, images and texts every day depicting extreme violence, sexual abuse, hate speech and other egregious behaviour. Depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, sleeplessness and suicidal thoughts as a result from this work is all too common.
African Tech Workers Rising organizer Sonia Kgomo, a former Facebook content moderator from Kenya, wrote earlier this year in the Guardian:
For two years, I spent up to ten hours a day staring at child abuse, human mutilation, racist attacks and the darkest parts of the internet so you did not have to.
You could not stop if you saw something traumatic. You could not stop for your mental health. You could not stop to go the bathroom. You just could not stop. We were told the client, in our case Facebook, required us to keep going.
Kgomo highlighted not only the disturbing nature of the content but also the intense pace demanded by her employer, the outsourcing firm Sama. Moderators’ performance was closely tracked, often given just seconds to evaluate each piece of troubling content.
Such precise and constant monitoring is increasingly enabled by algorithmic management systems and artificial intelligence. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is focusing this year’s IWMD on the consequences of digital surveillance and automation for workers’ health as part of their campaign ahead of important discussions at this year’s International Labor Conference.
Across nearly all economic sectors, this technology is squeezing workers to meet inhumane production targets and deteriorating workers’ mental and physical wellbeing with the extreme pressure of constant, real-time micromanagement and automated assessment.
For example, Amazon’s performance monitoring systems make workers feel “stressed, pressured, anxious, like a slave, robot and untrusted,” according to an international study of Amazon employees. Nearly 60 per cent of the over 2000 Amazon worker respondents from eight countries
UNI Global Union General Secretary Christy Hoffman said:
Job titles like ‘content moderator’ and the extreme surveillance workers now endure were unimaginable just a short time ago, but workers organizing for safe jobs and a real say about their conditions is as old as the labour movement itself. Unions have always fought and won protections against technological abuse. With every new form of workplace tech, the urgency grows to make it serve rather than hurt workers.
UNI has compiled many examples of unions pushing back against the expansion of bossware and digital surveillance in its report, Algorithmic Management: Opportunities for Collective Action. Showing yet again that it is union workplaces that are safe workplaces.
International Workers Memorial Day is the day that the trade union movement unites to remember workers at home and across the globe who have paid the ultimate price, those who left for work and never returned, as well as those whose lives have been altered by workplace injury or harm.
Workplace fatalities claim 32 lives nationwide this year
ACTU Media Release – April 28, 2025
Thirty-two Australian workers have tragically died so far this year while they were at work.
The figure is a grim reminder of the unacceptably high number of individuals who go off to work on an ordinary day and don’t make it back home again.
The number of workplace fatalities last year was 168, slightly lower than the five-year average of 191 workers who have been killed each year at work nationwide.
These workplace fatalities do not include the thousands of workers who die each year from deadly work-related diseases, like asbestosis, mesothelioma and silicosis caused by their use of asbestos and silica containing materials like the now banned engineered stone.
Australian Unions will highlight workplace fatalities at a special service in South Australia today marking International Workers’ Memorial Day, one of many such events occurring in each state and territory and around the world.
The memorial services will take place almost a year since the Albanese Government enacted legislation to bring in new nationally consistent industrial manslaughter laws that ensure employers are held accountable for the deaths of workers.
From July 1, 2024, those operating in the Commonwealth WHS jurisdiction found to have recklessly or negligently cause the death of a worker face potential criminal liability and up to 25 years’ imprisonment for individuals and $18 million for companies.
At today’s Adelaide memorial service, ACTU Assistant Secretary, Liam O’Brien and SA Unions’ Secretary, Dale Beasley will join families, workers and safety advocates to remember the South Australians killed at work in the past year.
Since the industrial manslaughter laws were introduced, there have been prosecutions initiated in nearly all states and across diverse industries including construction and manufacturing.
The Coalition voted against the industrial manslaughter laws twice, including most recently in Parliament in 2023, and has yet to release a workplace relations policy, or work health and safety policies in the current federal election campaign.
Quotes attributable to ACTU Assistant Secretary, Liam O’Brien:
“Today, Australian Unions remember those who were tragically killed at work and reflect on the importance of protecting the health and safety of all workers.
“Preventing workplace tragedies means defending the laws that provide justice for victims and their families and corporate accountability for employers who fail in their duty to workers.
“The families of those who lost loved ones at work were instrumental in securing the new industrial manslaughter laws.
“As we approach a year since the laws came into effect, working people deserve clarity on whether the Coalition would support stronger industrial manslaughter laws beyond the election.”
Quotes attributable to SA Unions Secretary, Dale Beasley:
“Coming home from work safely isn’t just a priority; it’s a right.
“South Australia now has a nation-leading workplace safety system, empowering workers and their unions to address workplace safety issues before the unthinkable happens.
“Secure jobs save lives. You’re not going to speak up about unsafe work if you’re scared of getting sacked. All the laws and regulations on the books mean nothing if you’re too vulnerable to use them.
“Even one worker’s death is a tragedy, this many worker deaths is a choice. There is so much more work to be done. No worker can afford to risk losing any of their workplace rights.”
https://www.actu.org.au/media-release/workplace-fatalities-claim-32-lives-nationwide-this-year/