UNISON
members will be marking International Workers' Memorial Day (IWMD) on and around Sunday
28 April 2013.
Details
of events around Scotland are on the STUC
website.
UNISON has more than 7,000 safety activists across the UK who are committed to
making our workplaces safer. We know things would be far worse without them.
Workplaces with union safety reps are twice as safe.
Each year on 28
April, IWMD is marked around the world to Remember the Dead, Fight for the
Living. We remember those killed, made ill, or injured by their own or someone
else’s work. Their pain and suffering and that of their families deserves
should not to be forgotten. We also renew our commitment to, and demand once
more, safe and healthy work for all.
Using the UK government’s own figures, every year at least 20,000 die from injuries and illness related to their job, however UNISON believes that this is an under-estimate, and that the truer figure is closer to 50,000.
However, the government continues to attack the protection we all receive from good health and safety practice. So called “low-risk” workplaces will no longer receive unannounced health and safety inspections. However the government’s own figures suggest that of those killed whilst at work, over half are in so called ‘low-risk’ workplaces".
Using the UK government’s own figures, every year at least 20,000 die from injuries and illness related to their job, however UNISON believes that this is an under-estimate, and that the truer figure is closer to 50,000.
However, the government continues to attack the protection we all receive from good health and safety practice. So called “low-risk” workplaces will no longer receive unannounced health and safety inspections. However the government’s own figures suggest that of those killed whilst at work, over half are in so called ‘low-risk’ workplaces".
This doesn’t include the thousands more who die from
diseases caused or made worse by work, or those who suffer years of pain and
disability caused by stress, violence, and other work related injuries and
illnesses.
With health and safety inspectors deliberately undermined by government cuts and unable to stop bad employers breaking the law, the work that union safety reps do is all the more important.
That’s why we are asking UNISON branch safety officers and safety reps to make sure they do something to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day this year.
With health and safety inspectors deliberately undermined by government cuts and unable to stop bad employers breaking the law, the work that union safety reps do is all the more important.
That’s why we are asking UNISON branch safety officers and safety reps to make sure they do something to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day this year.
Details of events taking place in around Scotland are on the STUC website and resources/materials can be found on the UNISON UK website health and safety pages
.
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