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Our right to a safe and healthy workplace
People wear masks to represent the workers killed on the job during last April's National Day of Mourning at Dieppe Park.
Photograph by: Dax Melmer, The Windsor Star , The Windsor Star
Sunday, April 28, 2013, marks the 29th anniversary of the National Day of Mourning, the day labour organizations around the world adopted to recognize workers who have been killed or injured on the job.
Currently, more than 100 countries recognize April 28, although many refer to it as Workers' Memorial Day. The day is acknowledged by the International Labour Organization, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the American Federation of Labour.
The Workers Health and Safety Centre says workers deserve the highest quality occupational health and safety training and when they get the training they need - safer, healthier work follows. Furthermore, when workers don't get the training they need, workers remain vulnerable and tragedy often results.
Our community will come together on April 28 and march to the Injured Workers Monument to lay a wreath and observe a moment of silence. The monument is inscribed with the words "Fight for the Living, Mourn for the Dead."
It is a day to honour the dead and injured and also a day to remind us to protect the living. One day hardly seems enough to recognize workers killed or injured because of their job.
You have the right to a safe and healthy workplace.
JOY HAMILTON, Windsor Occupational Health Information Service (WOHIS), Windsor
Currently, more than 100 countries recognize April 28, although many refer to it as Workers' Memorial Day. The day is acknowledged by the International Labour Organization, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the American Federation of Labour.
The Workers Health and Safety Centre says workers deserve the highest quality occupational health and safety training and when they get the training they need - safer, healthier work follows. Furthermore, when workers don't get the training they need, workers remain vulnerable and tragedy often results.
Our community will come together on April 28 and march to the Injured Workers Monument to lay a wreath and observe a moment of silence. The monument is inscribed with the words "Fight for the Living, Mourn for the Dead."
It is a day to honour the dead and injured and also a day to remind us to protect the living. One day hardly seems enough to recognize workers killed or injured because of their job.
You have the right to a safe and healthy workplace.
JOY HAMILTON, Windsor Occupational Health Information Service (WOHIS), Windsor
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