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Tuesday the 28th of April 2015 is the World Day for Safety and Health at Work and Worker’s Memorial Day.
The aim of this day is to help prevent future incidents and remember those we have lost to workplace injuries and disease by raising awareness of health and safety in your workplace. Last year there were over 2 million occupational fatalities globally. In Australia, despite a reduction in the number of Australians injured or killed at work over the last 10 years, in 2014, 185 workers lost their lives to work.
The World Day for Safety and Health at Work is an annual international campaign to promote safe and healthy work. It is held on 28 April and has been observed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) since 2003. The theme of the campaign for this year is: Join in building a culture of prevention on OSH. Work health and safety. Remember. Prevention.
The ILO celebrates the World Day for Safety and Health at Work on the 28th of April to promote the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases globally. It is an awareness-raising campaign intended to focus international attention on emerging trends in the field of occupational safety and health and on the magnitude of work-related injuries, diseases and fatalities worldwide.
The ILO states that “A national occupational safety and health culture is one in which the right to a safe and healthy working environment is respected at all levels, where governments, employers and workers actively participate in securing a safe and healthy working environment through a system of defined rights, responsibilities and duties, and where the highest priority is accorded to the principle of prevention.”
In 2003, the International Labour Organization (ILO), began to observe World Day in order to stress the prevention of accidents and diseases at work. 28 April is also the International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers organized worldwide by the trade union movement since 1996.
Worldwide, occupational diseases continue to be the leading cause of work-related deaths. According to ILO estimates, out of 2.34 million occupational fatalities every year, only 321,000 are due to accidents. The remaining 2.02 million deaths are caused by various types of work-related diseases, which correspond to a daily average of more than 5,500 deaths.
The inadequate prevention of occupational diseases has profound negative effects not only on workers and their families but also on society at large due to the tremendous costs that it generates; particularly, in terms of loss of productivity and burdening of social security systems. Prevention is more effective and less costly than treatment and rehabilitation. All countries can take concrete steps now to improve their capacity for preventing occupational diseases.
There are a large number of diseases that can be caused by a person’s occupation. However, some well-known occupational diseases include:
High Risk Occupations Include:
With all these occupational risks and deaths, the ILO is hoping to raise more awareness and preventative measures via the World Day for Safety and Health at Work and Worker’s Memorial Day. To help raise awareness of work health and safety, SafeWork Australia encourages everyone to:
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JTA Health, Safety & Noise Specialists acknowledges the Boon Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which the home of JTA resides. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging, and acknowledge and uphold their continuing relationship to this land.
