About the Charity

SAFETY

Celebrating Workers’ Memorial Day is an important part of promoting safety and honouring those who have lost their lives to the job.

Whether you work in a relatively safe occupation or in the far more dangerous fields that require you to put your life on the line in a daily basis, you can spread awareness of the much maligned Health and Safety at Work.

“We are who we are today because of yesterday”

If you’ve had relatives or someone you know die on the job, spend some time to remember them and share their stories (and what may have cost them their lives) as a cautionary tale to your co-workers, but also as a way to motivate people to report unsafe conditions and get management involved in resolving them. Everyone deserves to come home at the end of the work day, Workers’ Memorial Day reminds us of those who didn’t and encourages us to take steps to make sure there’s less of them in the future.

One worker dies every 15 seconds worldwide.

• 6,000 workers die every day.
• More than two million men and women die as a result of work-related accidents and diseases
• Workers suffer approximately 270 million accidents each year, and fall victim to some 160 million incidents of work-related illnesses
• Hazardous substances kill 440,000 workers annually – asbestos claims 100,000 lives