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Kazakhstan: Webinar held on workplace safety issues

Проведен вебинар по вопросам безопасности труда

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22 апреля 2021

100 представителей внутреннего и общественного контроля по безопасности и охране труда предприятий Павлодарской области прошли обучение.

22 апреля 2021 года инженеры служб безопасности и охраны труда, технические инспекторы по охране труда и председатели первичных профсоюзных организаций предприятий металлургии, железнодорожного транспорта, энергетики, электротеплоэнергетики, химической и нефтегазовой промышленности, жилищно-коммунального хозяйства, сельского хозяйства, образования и культуры приняли участие в вебинаре учебно-экспертного центра ALTYN ENBEK на тему «Требования по обучению работников в области безопасности и охраны труда, промышленной и пожарной безопасности».

Conducted by webinar on safety issues

Union News

April 22, 2021

100 representatives of internal and public control on health and safety of enterprises of Pavlodar region were trained.

On April 22, 2021, health and safety engineers, health and safety inspectors and chairmen of the primary trade union organizations of the steel industry, railway transport, energy, electric and oil and gas industries, housing and utilities, agriculture, education and culture took part in the webinar of the ALTYN ENBEK training and expert center on the topic of “Safety and Safety Training.”

USA: Virtual Worker’s Memorial Day ceremony in Massachusetts

If you’re in Massachusetts, USA, tune in to MassCOSH’s Worker’s Memorial Day ceremony. 28 April.

 

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Global: Cada minuto, 730 personas resultan envenenadas por pesticidas.

Panama: SUNTRACS joins Campaign for Global Alliance for Health and Safety at Work

Panama SUNTRACS joins Campaign for Global Alliance for Health and Safety at Work.
As of April 16, 2021, SUNTRACS has managed to collect 20 Declarations already signed with 20 different construction companies across Panama.
Together we recognize Health and Safety as a fundamental right. Let’s go! #SaveLivesAtWork #IWMD21

PANAMÁ: ALIANZA GLOBAL POR LA SALUD Y SEGURIDAD EN EL TRABAJO

El SUNTRACS de Panamá se une a la Campaña por la Alianza…

Posted by BWI Global Union on Friday, 16 April 2021

USA: 28 April resources, listing and further information from AFL-CIO

 

This Workers Memorial Day, April 28, is just around the corner. As workers continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic in their workplaces every day, the labor movement will commemorate those we have lost on the job and call to renew the promise of a safe job for every worker and fight for stronger safety and health protections. This year’s theme is “Renew the Promise. Safe Jobs for All.”

Attached is AFL-CIO President Trumka’s letter, launching Workers Memorial Day 2021 and the AFL-CIO’s campaign for the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. Also attached are English and Spanish versions of this year’s flier.

Please join us this April 28 to honor the victims of workplace injury and illness and to keep on fighting for the promise of 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, we will make it clear that the labor movement will defend the right of every worker to a safe job and fight until that promise is fulfilled. 

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 scroll down our Workers Memorial Day home page to view this year’s materials and artwork: http://aflcio.org/workersmemorialday

This year, we resumed the printing and shipping of orders from our building. You can place an order for materials on our website here: aflcio.org/wmd-materials

Workers Memorial Day Events:

Planning your events and commemorations will continue to be different this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Please consider virtual events, actions, activities and observances with suggestions in our flier. If gathering in person, please follow CDC’s guidelines on organizing large events and gatherings.

We want to hear about your Workers Memorial Day plans! Please share your event with us here so others can view and we can include it on our map.

More Materials Coming Soon:
Soon, we will be distributing 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 on safer workplaces through the PRO Act and the recently introduced workplace violence legislation, COVID-19 facts, digital resources, infographics and other information.

How to reach out to us about Workers Memorial Day:
oshmail@aflcio.org or 202-637-5305

Hashtags you can use to build solidarity online around Workers Memorial Day and the PRO Act:
#IWMD2021 #WMD2021 #1uSafety #PROAct

UK: Safe work is a right not a privilege

Workers’ Memorial Day, held on 28 April every year, brings together workers and their representatives from all over the world to remember the dead and fight for the living. In 2021 the theme is: Health and Safety is a fundamental workers’ right.

Remember those we have lost and
organise in their memory.

The Covid-19 crisis underscores the need for our mental health services to be supported and for workers to know that there is help for them when they need it.

While we may not be able to attend the memorial events which usually take place, we want to build a day of ‘virtual’ action on Wednesday 28 April.

Hold a minute’s silence

Join in the minute’s silence at 11:00, which is held every year to commemorate lost workers.

Until then make sure you join a union and and get active, unions keep workers safer so join Unite today.

For further resources, including #IWMD21 posters, please visit Unite at Work –  Health and Safety.

https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/events/workers-memorial-day/

USMWF – Workers’ Memorial Day Announcement

Hello Everyone,

We hope this email finds you healthy and well.

We would like to take a moment to share about our upcoming Workers’ Memorial Events we are hosting this year.

We invite you to take a moment and look at our newsletter that shares all the great events we are preparing for and hope that you can join us too this year.

We thank you all for your time and please let us know if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Tonya Ford
Executive Director
USMWF.ORG, Inc (A 501 c3 non profit)

Sunday. APRIL 25, 2021 at 7pm cst (8pm est): USMWF’s Second Virtual National Workers’ Memorial Day Ceremony via USMWF’s Facebook;

Wednesday, APRIL 28, 2021 at 9:00am-4:00pm cst (10:00am-5:00pm est):  USMWF’s Strive for Safety Workers’ Memorial Day Awareness Conference;

Wednesday, APRIL 28, 2021 at 8:00 pm cst. (7pm est): USMWF’s Kentucky Workers’ Memorial Day Ceremony.  This event will be held virtually at our USMWF Kentucky Facebook;

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 7:00pm cst: USMWF’s Nebraska Workers’ Memorial Day Ceremony.  This event will be held in person at the Nebraska State Capitol (northsteps) at 1445 K St, Lincoln, NE 68508;

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28 April 2021 campaign theme: Health and safety is a fundamental right at work

  • 28 de Abril Jornada Internacional de Conmemoración (JIC) de los Trabajadores Fallecidos y Heridos
  • 28 Avril Journée Internationale de Commémoration (JIC) des travailleurs décédés et blessés
  • 28 April International Workers’ Memorial Day
  • 28 April International commemoration day for dead and injured workers
  • 28 April International day of mourning

 

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

ITUC Campaign Brief

28 April 2021 campaign theme: Health and safety is a fundamental right at work #iwmd21

  • 28 de Abril Jornada Internacional de Conmemoración (JIC) de los Trabajadores Fallecidos y Heridos
  • 28 Avril Journée Internationale de Commémoration (JIC) des travailleurs décédés et blessés
  • 28 April International Workers’ Memorial Day
  • 28 April International commemoration day for dead and injured workers
  • 28 April International day of mourning

 

 

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

ITUC Campaign Brief

Thème de la campagne à l’occasion du 28 avril 2021: la santé et la sécurité sont un droit fondamental au travail

 

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.

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