Friday 28th April – World Day for Safety and Health at Work and Workers Memorial Day.
Friday 28th April – World Day for Safety and Health at Work and Workers Memorial Day.
Australia’s work-related fatality rates have been steadily trending downwards, but 178[1] workers still lost their lives in 2016. So far in 2017 there have been 45 work place deaths within Australia.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a specialised agency of the United Nations and has observed the World Day on Safety and Health at Work to promote the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases globally since 2003.
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.
For more information and resources refer to
http://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/sites/swa/media-events/world-safety-day/pages/world-safety-day
[1] Preliminary data for 2016
