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UK: Hazards Campaign press release: International Workers’ Memorial Day 28 April 2026

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Hazards Press Release: International Workers’ Memorial Day 28 April 2026

PRESS RELEASE: For immediate release
28 April 2026

Workers’ Memorial Day 2026: Remember the Dead. Fight for the Living — Addressing Psychosocial Hazards at Work

On International Workers’ Memorial Day, 28 April 2026, workers and trade unions around the world will come together to remember those who have died, been injured, or made ill because of work — and to demand action to prevent further harm.

In 2026, the global trade union movement, coordinated by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), is marking Workers’ Memorial Day with a focus on the urgent and growing crisis of psychosocial hazards at work, highlighted through its global campaign at: https://28april.org

Psychosocial hazards — including work-related stress, excessive workloads, long and unpredictable hours, job insecurity, bullying, harassment, workplace violence, and the misuse of technology and surveillance — are among the leading causes of work-related ill health worldwide. These risks contribute to mental ill health, cardiovascular disease, burnout, and suicide, yet are preventable. Despite this, they are still too often ignored or treated as individual resilience issues rather than recognised as health and safety failures rooted in how work is organised. The ITUC warns that deregulation, weak enforcement, insecure work, climate-related pressures, and technological intensification are driving a global rise in psychosocial harm.

The long-standing message of Workers’ Memorial Day — “Remember the Dead. Fight for the Living.” — reminds us that behind every statistic is a worker whose life has been permanently changed or cut short by unsafe work, including unsafe systems of work that damage mental health.

Manchester Event

Greater Manchester Hazards Centre will mark International Workers’ Memorial Day with a public event at Lincoln Square in central Manchester on 28 April from 11.30am:
https://gmhazards.org.uk/index.php/event/international-workers-memorial-day-28-april-2026

We will be remembering those we have lost and standing with workers currently experiencing harm caused by work-related stress, pressure, and insecurity. Other events will be held around the country, see:
https://www.megaphone.org.uk/events

Will at Greater Manchester Hazards Centre said:

“Psychosocial hazards are real workplace hazards. Stress, bullying, harassment, overwork, and insecure work are killing workers just as physical dangers are. This Workers’ Memorial Day, we honour those we have lost and recommit ourselves to changing the way work is organised so that it protects, rather than damages, people’s health.”

International Workers’ Memorial Day is also a call for action. In line with the ITUC’s 2026 campaign, Greater Manchester Hazards Centre calls on employers, regulators, and governments to:

  • Explicitly recognise psychosocial hazards as workplace health and safety risks
  • Conduct effective risk assessments addressing work-related stress and mental health
  • Prevent bullying, harassment, violence, and discrimination at work
  • Regulate excessive working hours and unsafe workloads
  • Strengthen enforcement of health and safety legislation
  • Ensure protection for all workers, including those in insecure and outsourced work

Psychosocial harm at work is not inevitable. Strong laws, strong enforcement, and strong unions save lives. On 28 April, we remember those who have died and recommit to fighting for safe, healthy and dignified work for all.

Ends

Notes to Editors

International Workers’ Memorial Day takes place annually on 28 April.

In 2026, the ITUC global theme focuses on psychosocial hazards at work, including stress, working hours, job insecurity, bullying, and the mental health impacts of work organisation.

Campaign resources and statements are available at:
https://28april.org
https://gmhazards.org.uk

Media Contact

Name: Will Starritt
Role: Coordinator
Organisation: Greater Manchester Hazards Centre
Email: William@GMHazards.org.uk
Phone: 0161 884 4229

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Spain: USO 28 april resources show climate change is a workplace risk

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Te envío nuestra campaña de este año, centrada en que el cambio climático es ya un riesgo laboral. En este sentido, reivindicamos espacios de trabajo seguros ante los fenómenos meteorológicos adversos cada vez más frecuentes y el cambio climático.

En los últimos años estamos asistiendo a un cambio en los patrones climatológicos que, más allá de veranos más largos o inviernos más cálidos, afecta directamente sobre el entorno y las condiciones de trabajo. La DANA de Valencia, los incendios del 2025 o la borrasca Filomena nos han demostrado que las condiciones ambientales también afectan directamente a la seguridad y la salud en el trabajo.

Por ello, desde USO consideramos imprescindible poner en el foco datos, estadísticas, estudios y análisis que, ante el próximo Día Mundial de la Seguridad y la Salud en el Trabajo, evidencian esta nueva realidad laboral. Mientras las empresas mantienen una actitud reactiva y las instituciones avanzan con marcos normativos en fase de desarrollo, la siniestralidad vinculada al clima exige una intervención inmediata.

Los materiales de esta campaña son:

·  Manifiesto y cartel
·  Díptico en formato Preguntas Frecuentes dirigido a trabajadores y trabajadoras.

Un abrazo

 

 

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Australia: 28 April events listing from ACTU

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ACTU Centre for Health and Safety Update 2026/15

Good afternoon,

As you would be aware, International Workers’ Memorial Day takes place annually around the world on 28 April – it is the international day of remembrance and action for workers killed, disabled, injured or made unwell by their work.

This year the focus is on psychosocial risks.

You can find details of the various TLC memorial events being held on Tuesday 28 April around the country here, and we encourage you to attend.

Kind regards,

Jenny Holden
Executive Assistant to Assistant Secretary, Liam O’Brien

International Workers Memorial Day – Tuesday 28 April

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Netherlands: FNV plans multiple activities to mark 28 April

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Workers’ Memorial Day

Every year on April 28: commemoration of the victims

On Workers’ Memorial Day, we remember employees who have died as a result of a workplace accident or occupational disease. This day is not unique to the Netherlands. Victims are commemorated worldwide. Workers’ Memorial Day falls on April 28 every year.

Workers’ Memorial Day Symposium

On Thursday, April 23, the FNV, together with the Arbeidsongevallen Foundation, is organizing a symposium as part of Workers’ Memorial Day. This year, we are reflecting on workplace accidents involving migrant workers. Because safe and healthy work is a right for all workers, including migrant workers.

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Workers’ Memorial Day commemorations on April 28

On Tuesday, April 28, the FNV will commemorate Workers’ Memorial Day at various locations throughout the country. This is the day on which all people worldwide who have fallen ill, been injured, or died as a result of a work accident or occupational disease are remembered. You can be there.

Amsterdam

  • Location: Trade Union House Amsterdam, Derkinderenstraat 2-8 in Amsterdam
  • Time: April 28 from 10:30-11:30
  • To register: ko.hartman@vereniging.fnv.nl

Utrecht

  • Location: Central Trade Union House, Het Facet, Hertogswetering 159 in Utrecht
  • Time: April 28 from 12:00 to 12:30

Rotterdam

  • Location: at the ‘Vaart Vrij’ monument in the Buizenpark, Rotterdam Katendrecht
  • Time: April 28 at 5:30 PM
  • The commemoration is preceded by a gathering at the nearby Verhalenhuis Belvédère from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

Hengelo

  • Location: Trade Union House Hengelo, Oldenzaalsestraat 129 in Hengelo
  • Time: April 28 from 19:00 to 20:30

You are welcome to commemorate the victims with us at one of these locations.

Every year, more than 4,000 people die in the Netherlands as a result of a workplace accident or occupational disease. That is far too many. It is important to observe a moment of silence for this every year. Safe and healthy work is a right for every employee. That is why the FNV draws attention to the subject every year on April 28, Workers’ Memorial Day.

More than 4,000 deaths per year

It seems so self-evident to return home safely after a workday. Every year in the Netherlands, 50-70 workers die following an accident at work. Fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters who did not return home after a workday. And every year, more than 4,000 people in the Netherlands also lose their lives due to occupational diseases, largely due to exposure to hazardous substances. In addition, there are tens of thousands of reports of serious accidents and occupational diseases every year. This is far too many. Working safely and healthily is a fundamental right, also in the Netherlands.

Many companies are not doing enough. 

The FNV believes that things must and can be improved. Many companies are still doing far too little to make work safe, healthy, and sustainable. Most companies provide insufficient protection for employees working with carcinogenic substances. This often applies to migrant workers from Eastern Europe who perform heavy and dangerous work here for low wages. Furthermore, temporary agency workers and self-employed professionals often cannot access the company doctor. That is why we call on the government: show more ambition and prioritize safe and healthy working conditions.

Flag at half-mast

On April 28, at the FNV, we remember all those who have died as a result of a workplace accident or occupational disease. The flag is flown at half-mast and we lay a wreath. A moment of silence follows the wreath-laying. Is the flag at your workplace also at half-mast on April 28? Ask your employer.

https://www.fnv.nl/werk-inkomen/veilig-gezond-werken/bedrijfsongevallen/workers-memorial-day?lang=en-US

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USA: New York memorial to mark 28 April

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A memorial to mark Workers’ Memorial Day will be held in New York City on Tuesday 28 April 2026 at 12 pm at 345 Park Avenue. It is presented by New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) together with AFL-CIO affiliate New York City Central Labor Council. 

Workers’ Memorial Day commemorates workers who have died, been injured, or made ill because of their jobs and is observed internationally by labour organisations and workplace safety groups.

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TODAY! ITUC global webinar on psychosocial risks at work, 8 April 2026, 12:30-14:30 Brussels time (CET) 

ITUC global webinar on psychosocial risks at work, 8 April 2026, 12:30-14:30 Brussels time (CET)

In the lead-up to International Workers’ Memorial Day (April 28th), join us for a global conversation on the growing crisis of psychosocial risks at work — and how unions are responding. 

Safe and healthy working environments are a fundamental right. Yet across sectors and regions, workers are facing rising levels of stress, anxiety, depression and burnout driven by job insecurity, excessive hours, poor work-life balance, technological intensification, and weakening legal protections. 

Trade unions are mobilising. This webinar will: 

  • Present the latest research on psychosocial risks; 
  • Highlight union campaigns and victories;
  • Showcase collective bargaining and legal reforms advancing mental health protections at work. 

Hosted by the ITUC in preparation for International Workers’ Memorial Day (April 28th), this event will spotlight concrete action to defend the right to safe and secure work. 

Interpretation is available in English, French and Spanish. 

You can register your participation here: 

https://ituc-csi-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YJ1FO43JQ8OwK7QdtmVw3w

We look forward to seeing you there. 

Eric Manzi 

ITUC Deputy General Secretary 

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Global: Call to action – International Workers’ Memorial Day 2026 – BWI

International Workers’ Memorial Day 
28 April 2026 
Intensifying the “Too Hot To Work Campaign”  
From Awareness to Agreements 

On 28 April, International Workers’ Memorial Day, BWI fights for the living and remembers those we have lost.

In 2026, we are intensifying our global Too Hot To Work Campaign while confronting the growing impact of extreme weather events on workers.

Heat stress is no longer a seasonal issue. It is a structural occupational hazard driven by climate change, unsafe production targets, and weak enforcement. At the same time, workers face escalating exposure to extreme weather, heatwaves, storms, floods, wildfires, and unpredictable climate conditions, which threaten their safety and lives. In 2023, the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that 250,000 additional deaths would occur each year by 2030 due to climate change. In 2024, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) report said that at least 2.41 billion workers – 71 per cent of the working population – are exposed to excessive heat, resulting in 22.85 million injuries and 18,970 deaths annually.

Workers in construction, building materials, forestry, and related sectors are paying the price.

This year, our priority is clear: move from awareness to enforceable protection.

Affiliates are encouraged to push for binding commitments, including:

  • Collective Bargaining Agreements with heat and climate risk clauses
  • Sectoral or national framework agreements
  • Legal and regulatory reforms
  • Company-level heat and climate protection plans
  • Joint declarations with employers

Where agreements already exist, promote them and use them as models.

Where protections are weak or absent, push for new signatures and stronger commitments.

BWI and its affiliates call for protections that guarantee:

  • The right to stop work in extreme heat or dangerous weather without retaliation, through set maximum temperature limits that account for weather conditions and humidity levels.
  • Paid cooling breaks and adjusted working hours
  • Access to water, shade, ventilation, and protective measures appropriate to weather risks
  • Mandatory heat and climate risk assessments
  • Emergency preparedness and evacuation procedures
  • Income protection when work is halted due to unsafe climate conditions
  • Compensation and long-term support for affected workers

Heat stress is predictable. Climate risks are escalating. Deaths are preventable.

No worker should depend on goodwill. Protection must be written, signed, and enforceable.

Take Action

  • Secure or strengthen agreements
  • Publicise existing CBAs or joint agreements with heat and extreme weather protections
  • Initiate negotiations where no protections exist
  • Mobilise and train workers
  • Conduct toolbox talks and training on heat stress and climate risks
  • Equip safety representatives to identify climate-related hazards
  • Engage governments
  • Push for legally binding national standards and social protection schemes addressing heat and extreme weather risks
  • Call for integrating climate protection into national OSH and adaptation policies.

Share Your Agreements & Action. Showcase union power in action.

Send BWI:

  • Signed agreements
  • Joint declarations
  • CBA clauses
  • National legal commitments
  • Photos and videos from events or mobilisations

Share with your regional coordinator, and your actions will be featured on www.28april.org 

Download IWMD posters.  

#TooHotToWork #IWMD26 #BWI

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USA: AFL-CIO 28 April resources available now!

The AFL-CIO’s Workers Memorial Day’s web page in now live, which means you can download stickers, posters and fliers in English and Spanish.

You can also download a toolkit, which includes some important fact sheets and information on deregulation and worker safety and health, the Trump record, etc. There are some English and some Spanish sections to the toolkit. Descargue el Kit de Herramientas (Ingles / Espanol)

This year we will HOLD THE LINE FOR SAFE JOBS/SIGAMOS EN PIE POR EMPLEOS SEGUROS. “Mourn for the Dead, Fight for the Living” stickers are also available.

We are pretty excited about the theme and the artwork this year. State feds/CLCs, faith groups, other community groups and others have already placed orders.

Rebecca Reindel

OHS Director, AFL-CIO

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Europe: ETUI-ETUC invitation – Climate change and workers’ health | 28 April

ETUI-ETUC joint conference in commemoration of the International Workers’ Memorial Day
Climate change and workers’ health
28 April 2026, 9:00 – 17:00
Thon Hotel Brussels City Centre (Avenue du Boulevard 17, 1210 Brussels), room Bergen

Climate change is not only challenging the labour market but it is also reshaping working conditions and occupational risks and workers’ health across Europe and beyond. Rising temperatures, extreme weather events and environmental degradation are creating new and intensified occupational hazards while exposing existing inequalities between sectors, territories and groups of workers.

This one-day conference organised on 28th April will commemorate the International Workers’ Memorial Day. The event will bring together leading academics, trade union representatives, policymakers and practitioners to examine the growing impacts of climate change on occupational health and safety with a particular focus on heat stress at work and the prospect of better EU legal tools against occupational heat.

By fostering dialogue between research, social partners and EU institutions, the conference aims to contribute to the development of fair, effective and worker-centered responses to climate change putting occupational health and safety at the heart of Europe’s climate and social agenda.

Download the final programme

The event will take place IN PERSON in Brussels. Interpretation will be available in English, French, Italian and Spanish. Following the conference, the recording and the presentations of participating speakers (subject to their agreement) will be made available on this website. Please register here.

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Argentina: Aportes al informe de CSI sobre Riesgos Psicosociales – CTA

En respuesta a la CIRCULAR CSI N.º 04 (2026): Jornada Internacional de Conmemoración de los Trabajadores Fallecidos y Heridos: 28 de abril. Aportes al informe de CSI sobre Riesgos Psicosociales.

La situación de las personas trabajadoras argentinas respecto de los Riesgos Psicosociales, se vuelve cada vez mas compleja. El perfil y las acciones del gobierno nacional suman cotidianamente presión con precarización en aumento, pérdida de puestos de trabajo registrado, caída de la producción y el consumo, salarios en retroceso, aprobación de normativa que ataca a la clase trabajadora y a quienes se encuentran en situación de vulnerabilidad por múltiples factores (personas jubiladas, en situación de discapacidad, mujeres y diversidades, entre otros).

En este contexto, sostener los acuerdos existente dentro de los Convenios Colectivos, referidos a los riesgos psicosociales se vuelve complejo. La reforma laboral propuesta y aprobada por el actual gobierno, también pone en peligro aún mas la salud y seguridad, atacando derechos básicos ya consagrados para quienes trabajamos en Argentina. Condiciones de trabajo tales como el tiempo, la forma de vinculación, la organización de tareas, el trabajo de plataformas, entre otros, profundizan aún mas los riesgos laborales y sus efectos sobre nuestra salud. Seremos cada vez mas esclavxs.

Entre otras cuestiones, la nueva norma elimina la ultraactividad, lo que redundará en la caída de los Convenios Colectivos de Trabajo (CCT) a su vencimiento, generando la perdida de derechos logrados a través de la negociación colectiva, obligando a la renegociación inmediata. Entre las perdidas de derechos, podremos contar los espacios mixtos de SST (Comités, Comisiones), que en nuestro país se encuentran dentro de los CCT, espacios donde se abordan o pueden abordar los riesgos psicosociales o situaciones vinculadas a ellos.

Como marco legal, se encuentra vigente el nuestro país el Convenio 190 de OIT sobre erradicación de la Violencia y el acoso en el mundo del trabajo, ratificado por Ley 27580 en el año 2020.

También contamos con una recomendación del Mercosur sobre el tema: Recomendación CMC 04/23 “Prevención de Riesgos Psicosociales en el Trabajo”

En el 2025, la Superintendencia de Riesgos del Trabajo una Guía para la intervención psicosocial en los espacios de trabajo, de aplicación opcional para los actores del sistema de riesgo argentino, a fin de evaluar y mitigar los denominados riesgos psicosociales.

Hay Convenios Colectivos vigentes que incluyen los Riesgos Psicosociales, al menos como aspecto a considerar dentro de la Salud y Seguridad, entre ellos el CCT 214/06 de la Administración Pública Nacional.

Dentro de las actividades llevadas a cabo y en las que participamos desde nuestra ATE y la CTA Autónoma, algunas vinculadas directamente al abordaje de los riesgos psicosociales son:

2021

  • Participamos del curso “Riesgos psicosociales y sus consecuencias para el bienestar físico y psíquico de trabajadores y trabajadoras”, organizado por ACTRAV OIT.
  • Participamos en la formación “Poner fin a la violencia y el acoso en el mundo del trabajo: Conocer el marco y los principios para abogar por el cambio”, del Centro Internacional de Formación de OIT.
  • Participamos de la Formación “UN FUTURO DEL TRABAJO LIBRE DE VIOLENCIA Y ACOSO: LABORATORIO DE DISEÑO DE UNA POLÍTICA EN EL LUGAR DE TRABAJO”, organizada por el Centro Internacional de Formación de OIT.
  • Desarrollamos en conjunto con el Dpto. de Género y Diversidad de ATE Nación, la Campaña sobre Convenio 190 y Recomendación 206 de la OIT, para erradicar la violencia y el acoso en el mundo del trabajo. Cuadernillo de divulgación, flyers, afiches y video. (https://ate.org.ar/ate-lanza-una-campana-sobre-el-convenio-190-oit/)

2022

  • Curso realizado por ISSTATE en conjunto con la OIT y la Universidad Laboral de México,(UNILAM) sobre la “Inclusión de condiciones de trabajo seguras y saludables en el marco de la OIT relativo a los principios y derechos fundamentales en el trabajo y al Convenio 190”. Este curso tuvo una duración de 5 semanas y fue realizado en el Campus de ACTRAV- OIT.
  • Segundo encuentro del curso “Ambientes de Trabajo libres de violencia: Normativa vigente – Salud Laboral”, organizado por el Dpto. de Salud Laboral del CDP de ATE Córdoba.
  • Taller virtual introductorio sobre “CONVENIO 190: LA ERRADICACIÓN DE LA VIOLENCIA EN EL MUNDO DEL TRABAJO. Organizado por el depto de Salud de ATE JUJUY y el ISSTATE. Secretaría de CyMAT – CTA A. Lic. Ramiro Fernández (Secretario), Lic. Orestes Galeano, Lic. Magali Arocena
    (2026)
  • Junto con ACTRAV de OIT, llevamos a cabo los ENCUENTROS VIRTUALES SOBRE RIESGOS PSICOSOCIALES y su vínculo con la violencia en el mundo del Trabajo.
  • Fuimos parte de la organización y desarrollo de las Primeras Jornadas de formación y reflexión sobre: “ERRADICACIÓN DE LA VIOLENCIA Y EL ACOSO EN EL MUNDO DEL TRABAJO. CONVENIO 190 Y RECOMENDACIÓN 206 DE OIT”. Realizado en CDP ATE Buenos Aires.
  • aller de Formación: Violencia y Acoso en el mundo del Trabajo”. Centrado en SST y Convenio 190 de OIT, llevado a cabo en la ciudad de Tolhuin, provincia de Tierra del Fuego.

2023

  • Elaboración del PROTOCOLO Y LICENCIAS ANTE CASOS DE VIOLENCIA DE GENERO. Acompañamiento con profesionales y ampliación de licencias.

2024

  • Curso sobre “Prevenir y abordar la violencia y el acoso en el mundo del trabajo mediante la Salud y Seguridad en las Américas”, del cual participamos junto a 13 compañerxs de ATE y CTAA.
  • Taller “Masculinidades y Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo: El papel de los hombres y las masculinidades transformadoras”, llevado a cabo por OIT.
  • Taller sobre “Violencia y acoso en el mundo del trabajo”, realizado en Chaco y organizado con la Secretaría de Formación de ATE Nacional.
  • JORNADA S/CONSUMO PROBLEMÁTICO. Realizado en FOETRA junto al SEDRONAR. Consecuencias sobre la salud física y psíquica.
  • PROTOCOLO DE ACTUACIÓN ANTE CLIENTES VIOLENTOS. En el marco de la erradicación de la violencia en el mundo del trabajo.

2025

  • JORNADA DE SALUD MENTAL. Realizado en FOETRA, En el marco del mes de la Salud Mental, encuentro informativo y de concientización.
  • JORNADA SOBRE SALUD MENTAL Y ADICCIONES. Realizado en FOETRA. Presentado por profesionales del Hospital Nacional en Red Especializado en Salud Mental y Adicciones “Lic. Laura Bonaparte”.

Secretaría de CyMAT – CTA A. Lic. Ramiro Fernández (Secretario), Lic. Orestes Galeano, Lic. Magali Arocena
(2026)

Remember the dead, fight like hell for the living