#workplace-safety — Public Fediverse posts
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Today is #WorldDayForSafetyAndHealthAtWork!
An estimated 1.16 to 2.9 million #employees succumb to #work-related #diseases and #accidents per year (#GBDstudy, Pega et al., Takkala et al./@ILO).
The trend is rising, despite #SDG 8.8 calls to promote #safe and #secure #working #environments for all #workers.
#GlobalGoals #SDGs #2030Agenda #SDG8 #occupational #WorldOSHday #safeWork #GlobalHealth @UN @WHO @IHME_UW #SafetyAtWork #OccupationalHealth #WorkplaceSafety #OSH
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"Mourn for the dead, fight for the living."
April 28: National Day of Mourning for workers killed or injured on the job.
Workplace injuries don't just affect workers—they devastate families and communities.
Join events in your area to remember those we've lost and advocate for safer workplaces for all.
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🕯️ National Day of Mourning - Windsor
Tuesday, April 28 at 5 PM EST
📍 Reaume Park at The Injured Workers Monument, Windsor ONJoin Windsor & District Labour Council as we lay flowers at the riverfront to remember those killed or injured in the workplace.
Renew your commitment to worker health, safety, and well-being.
🍽️ Refreshments 6 PM at Hook and Ladder (3690 Seminole Street)
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🇨🇦 This Tuesday, April 28: National Day of Mourning
Ceremonies are being held across Ontario and Canada to commemorate workers who have died or been injured at work.
These workers were:
• Parents, children, partners
• Friends and community members
• People who deserved to come home safelyHonor their memory. Demand better workplace protections.
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🌹 Remembering. Recommitting. April 28, 6pm EST
Thunder Bay Day of Mourning ceremony at First Wesley United Church, 130 Brodie Street N.
We honor those lost to workplace injuries and illness. We renew our commitment to safer workplaces for ALL workers.
Supper follows ceremony.
Organized by TBDIWSG & TB District Labour Council
https://thunderbayinjuredworkers.com
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🕯️ National Day of Mourning - April 28
On April 28, we remember workers who have been killed, injured, or suffered illness due to workplace hazards.
Events are taking place across Canada to honor these workers and their families.
Let us remember those who went to work and never came home.
#DayOfMourning #April28 #WorkplaceSafety #InjuredWorkers #Canada
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"Mourn for the dead, fight for the living."
April 28: National Day of Mourning for workers killed or injured on the job.
Workplace injuries don't just affect workers—they devastate families and communities.
Join events in your area to remember those we've lost and advocate for safer workplaces for all.
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🇨🇦 This Tuesday, April 28: National Day of Mourning
Ceremonies are being held across Ontario and Canada to commemorate workers who have died or been injured at work.
These workers were:
• Parents, children, partners
• Friends and community members
• People who deserved to come home safelyHonor their memory. Demand better workplace protections.
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💔 April 28 is the National Day of Mourning
Join Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers Support Group and Thunder Bay & District Labour Council at 6pm EST to remember those lost or harmed in the workplace.
First Wesley United Church
130 Brodie Street North, Thunder BaySupper follows the ceremony. All welcome.
We mourn the dead. We fight for the living.
https://thunderbayinjuredworkers.com
https://thunderbaydistrictlabourcouncil.wordpress.com/ -
🕯️ National Day of Mourning - April 28
On April 28, we remember workers who have been killed, injured, or suffered illness due to workplace hazards.
Events are taking place across Canada to honor these workers and their families.
Let us remember those who went to work and never came home.
#DayOfMourning #April28 #WorkplaceSafety #InjuredWorkers #Canada
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If employees really continued working around a corpse, then the issue is larger than one shocking moment. It becomes a question about dignity, trauma, and how institutional logic overrides human instinct.
#Amazon #WorkplaceSafety #LaborRights #CorporateCulture #WorkerDignity #Ethics #news -
#eattherich #epsteinclass #trumpsteinclass #allpowertothepeople #nopowertothepigs #wealthinequality #incomeinequality #rememberthebastille #uspol #uspolitics #billionaires #wealthandprivilege #wealthredistribution #unionize #workersrights #jobsafety #workplacesafety #medicare #medicaid #healthinsurance #bankruptcy #eattherich #unitedhealthcare
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Bezos - a vile human being:
https://youtu.be/nKOncH9a2Wc?si=_btyMEEBIbGUHgVb
#amazon #laurensanchez #jeffbezos #bezos #eattherich #epsteinclass #trumpsteinclass #allpowertothepeople #nopowertothepigs #wealthinequality #incomeinequality #rememberthebastille #uspol #uspolitics #billionaires #wealthandprivilege #wealthredistribution #unionize #workersrights #jobsafety #workplacesafety #allpowertothepeople #nopowertothepigs -
🌹 Remembering. Recommitting. April 28, 6pm EST
Thunder Bay Day of Mourning ceremony at First Wesley United Church, 130 Brodie Street N.
We honor those lost to workplace injuries and illness. We renew our commitment to safer workplaces for ALL workers.
Supper follows ceremony.
Organized by TBDIWSG & TB District Labour Council
https://thunderbayinjuredworkers.com
https://thunderbaydistrictlabourcouncil.wordpress.com/ -
💔 April 28 is the National Day of Mourning
Join Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers Support Group and Thunder Bay & District Labour Council at 6pm EST to remember those lost or harmed in the workplace.
First Wesley United Church
130 Brodie Street North, Thunder BaySupper follows the ceremony. All welcome.
We mourn the dead. We fight for the living.
https://thunderbayinjuredworkers.com
https://thunderbaydistrictlabourcouncil.wordpress.com/ -
🙌 The Tyee has done amazingly well with this piece. And again, this is NOT a historic roundup - COVID-19 has ongoing community transmission and is impacting people's lives and health, today, right now.
People are tired of the COVID pandemic. There is a desire to move on. But even today, as we write this, there continue to be outbreaks in hospitals and long-term care facilities in Alberta and elsewhere in North America.
7/7 🧵
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/03/27/Human-Cost-Failing-Name-COVID-Airborne/
#COVIDIsAirborne #SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19 #SafeWorkplace #workplaceSafety #WorkSafeBC #CDNPoli #PublicHealth
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And the need for airborne protection, now, is not hypothetical, it's not in the past. it's now:
In Canada, government data shows that in the week ending March 8, 2026, 34 per cent of COVID patients in hospital acquired the virus while in hospital.
And yes, there is enough science to place the blame squarely on insufficient airborne protection for those people:
How many either communicated the COVID virus to a poorly protected health-care worker or received the virus from a health-care worker who was left without adequate defences, such as properly filtered air or an N95 mask, to ward off the virus? We know, because studies have shown that respirator masks are better than other medical masks at preventing an infected person from infecting someone else.
6/n 🧵
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/03/27/Human-Cost-Failing-Name-COVID-Airborne/
#COVIDIsAirborne #SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19 #SafeWorkplace #workplaceSafety #WorkSafeBC #CDNPoli #PublicHealth
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Now, technically it's true that
It’s difficult to know why the word “airborne” is avoided so consistently, but the impact is clear: without that word, occupational health and safety requirements can be evaded.
but ;lobbying is the reason for almost every decision that hurts all of Canadian citizens and the Canadian economy and Canadian international strength, so personally I think I only need one guess
5/n 🧵
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/03/27/Human-Cost-Failing-Name-COVID-Airborne/
#COVIDIsAirborne #SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19 #SafeWorkplace #workplaceSafety #WorkSafeBC #CDNPoli #PublicHealth #N95
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And the Public Health Agency of Canada has been outright misleading us for years:
So how is it still possible that the Canadian OHS laws don’t apply, requiring the appropriate PPE for airborne spread?
PHAC, to this day, has never used the word “airborne.” It’s merely implied
Now, they still technically advised safe behaviour:
For years, the advice to the public was to wear the “best made, best fitting mask,” terminology that only describes a respirator-style N95 mask, essential for mitigating airborne transmission
But by not outright admitting the actual threat, they let Average Canadian, and Average Canadian Healthcare Worker keep falsely thinking that baggy blues are effective protection.
4/n 🧵
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/03/27/Human-Cost-Failing-Name-COVID-Airborne/
#COVIDIsAirborne #SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19 #SafeWorkplace #workplaceSafety #WorkSafeBC #CDNPoli #PublicHealth #N95
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Protection means N95s or better :n95: and not baggy blues
medical masks were never designed as respiratory PPE
while
Respirator masks, which are explicitly referred to in OHS legislation as the appropriate PPE for airborne hazards, are designed specifically to prevent inhalation of threats like asbestos or COVID-19
3/n 🧵
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/03/27/Human-Cost-Failing-Name-COVID-Airborne/
#COVIDIsAirborne #SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19 #SafeWorkplace #workplaceSafety #WorkSafeBC #CDNPoli #PublicHealth #N95