International Day of mourning

This morning UnionsACT/ WorkWatch hosted the International Day of Mourning (IDM) ceremony at our premises in Mitchell. For those who don't know, IDM is a day where we remember those who have lost their lives on workplaces worldwide.

Every year in Australia, between 200 and 300 people go to work in the morning and don't go home that night - they die on the job. That doesn't include the 5,000 to 8,000 people who die because of a long term work related illness, disease or other illness or the 600,000 people injured while on the job each year.

And that's just Australia. Imagine how many people world-wide fail to go home each day to those they love and who love them because of a work related death or injury.

Below is the address given by the Reverend Gordon Ramsay from the Kippax Uniting Church. I am publishing it in full - but in this simple address is a major message that none of us should ignore.

Go to: http://www.safetyforum.org.au/profiles/blogs/international-day-of-m...