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Why must safety be fundamental? Because our jobs are killing us. The Covid-19 pandemic didn’t cause a workplace occupational health crisis; it exposed it. Millions are suffering and dying each year as a price for doing their job. Covid-19 added to this toll.
Find out the deadly truth with the ITUC/Hazards 28 April fundamental factfile.
⌛️Toutes les 10s, un travailleur meurt en raison des procédures laxistes sur le lieu de travail
Nous appelons tous les gouvernements à #SauverDesViesAuTravail et à adopter la santé et la sécurité au travail comme un droit fondamental au travail#IWMD21https://t.co/kQi6Fo0prn
— ITUC (@ituc) April 17, 2021
⌛️Cada diez segundos, alguien muere a causa de procedimientos poco estrictos en el lugar de trabajo.
Instamos a todos los gobiernos a #SalvarVidasEnElTrabajo y adoptar la salud y seguridad como un derecho fundamental en el trabajo.
? #IWMD21 ⬇️⬇️https://t.co/CZqR9EF5yN
— ITUC (@ituc) April 18, 2021
?️”With 2.78M people each year dying from work-related illness & injury even before the pandemic, the picture is now exacerbating. It’s time for govts & employers to make occupational health+safety a fundamental right at work”@SharanBurrow#IWMD21 story⬇️https://t.co/0p340DdGBD
— ITUC (@ituc) April 13, 2021
? 28 April – International Workers’ Memorial Day #IWMD21
In South Asia around 4,500 workers die each year in building collapses – about 2,600 in India alone
?https://t.co/UfVBZN6uoy #SaveLivesAtWork pic.twitter.com/CojRytnm6K
— ITUC (@ituc) April 12, 2021
The International Labour Organization (ILO) includes the elimination of discrimination as a fundamental right at work, but occupational health and safety (OHS) is not included. OHS is crucial to tackling the Covid-19 pandemic, and it must be given sufficient priority by the global community. This International Workers’ Memorial Day, please join us in calling on the ILO to make OHS a fundamental right at work and #SaveLivesAtWork. #iwmd21
In solidarity,
Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary
@SharanBurrow
ITUC Campaign Brief: A new approach to global governance of occupational health and safety.
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed an occupational health crisis in workplaces worldwide. Workers are routinely denied even basic health and safety protections, including consultation with safety reps and safety committees on ‘Covid-safe’ policies and practices, free access to personal protective equipment and protection from victimisation for raising health and safety concerns. But the same problems existed before the pandemic and resulted in millions of deaths each year from work-related injuries and diseases.
The pandemic demonstrates why health and safety must be a right for everyone who works. Illness anywhere threatens illness everywhere. Unions secured agreement at the International Labour Conference in 2019 that occupational health and safety should be recognised as an International Labour Organisation (ILO) fundamental right at work – the decent, universally accepted and binding rights protecting all workers, everywhere. The ILO Centenary Declaration accepts “safe and healthy working conditions are fundamental to decent work”.
On 28 April 2021, unions can send a message that health and safety protection at work must be recognised as a right for all. Whether it is Covid or occupational cancers, or workplace injuries and industrial diseases, every worker should have a right to a voice and a right to protection. No-one should have to die to make a living.
Resources and updates will be posted on the dedicated 28 April webpages: www.28april.org
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed an occupational health crisis in workplaces worldwide. Workers are routinely denied even basic health and safety protections, including consultation with safety reps and safety committees on ‘Covid-safe’ policies and practices, free access to personal protective equipment and protection from victimisation for raising health and safety concerns. But the same problems existed before the pandemic and resulted in millions of deaths each year from work-related injuries and diseases.
The pandemic demonstrates why health and safety must be a right for everyone who works. Illness anywhere threatens illness everywhere. Unions secured agreement at the International Labour Conference in 2019 that occupational health and safety should be recognised as an International Labour Organisation (ILO) fundamental right at work – the decent, universally accepted and binding rights protecting all workers, everywhere. The ILO Centenary Declaration accepts “safe and healthy working conditions are fundamental to decent work”.
On 28 April 2021, unions can send a message that health and safety protection at work must be recognised as a right for all. Whether it is Covid or occupational cancers, or workplace injuries and industrial diseases, every worker should have a right to a voice and a right to protection. No-one should have to die to make a living.
Resources and updates will be posted on the dedicated 28 April webpages: www.28april.org
La pandémie de Covid-19 a mis en évidence une crise de la santé au travail aux quatre coins du monde. Les travailleurs et travailleuses sont régulièrement privés des protections même élémentaires en matière de sécurité et de santé, notamment la consultation des représentants et des comités de sécurité en ce qui concerne les politiques et pratiques sûres dans le cadre de la Covid-19, le libre accès à l’équipement de protection individuelle et la protection contre les représailles pour avoir soulevé des préoccupations concernant la santé et la sécurité. Toutefois, ces problèmes existaient déjà avant la pandémie, entraînant des millions de décès, chaque année, liés à des lésions et maladies professionnelles .
La pandémie montre pourquoi la santé et la sécurité doivent constituer un droit pour toutes les personnes qui travaillent. La maladie, où qu’elle survienne, constitue une menace à sa transmission partout ailleurs. Lors de la Conférence internationale du travail en 2019, les syndicats ont obtenu que l’Organisation internationale du travail (OIT) doive reconnaître la santé et la sécurité au travail comme un droit fondamental au travail – principes de travail décent, universellement acceptés et contraignants en vue de protéger tous les travailleurs dans le monde entier. La Déclaration du centenaire de l’OIT reconnaît que « des conditions de travail sûres et salubres sont fondamentales au travail décent. »
Le 28 avril 2021, les syndicats pourront envoyer un message indiquant que la protection de la santé et de la sécurité au travail doit être reconnue comme un droit pour tous. Qu’il s’agisse de la Covid-19 ou de cancers professionnels, ou d’accidents du travail et de maladies professionnelles, tous les travailleurs doivent avoir le droit à la parole, ainsi que le droit à la protection. Personne ne doit risquer de mourir pour gagner sa vie.
Une documentation et des mises à jour seront publiées sur les pages web consacrées au 28 avril: www.28april.org.