• Get your employer to allow some form of recognition of the day, such as one minute's silence to remember anyone who has died at your workplace.
• Ask your local council, or any other public body to fly official flags at half-mast on the day; and/or
• Write a letter to the local press;
• Organising a local meeting on health and safety and the need for more corporate accountability. You could focus on a particular issue of concern where you work, such as violence or lone working;
• Arranging an event such as planting a memorial tree in a public place, putting up a plaque, dedicating a sculpture, a piece of art, or a bench, to remember workers who have been killed at the workplace or in the community;
• Asking local religious centres to include Workers' Memorial Day in their worship during the Week;
• Distribute purple 'forget-me-not' ribbons, the symbol of Workers Memorial Day;
• Finding out what other unions, your local Hazards group, or regional TUC or Trades Council are planning and taking part or organising a joint event

Events will be taking place around the country. In the North West, the following have been announced:

• Manchester - Rally at Peace Gardens 11.30am on Monday 28th April - music by Claire Mooney; theatre; Speakers - Families Against Corporate Killers, TU safety reps.  Refreshments at Mechanics Institute afterwards.
• Liverpool - UCATT will be holding an event at the Memorial in Hunter Street, 28th April; assemble 11.45 a.m.  with General Secretary Allan Ritchie
• Preston - March and rally on Saturday 26th April  11.30 am at Preston Flag Market for more information about it, please contact: WMD c/o Trade Union Education, 5th Floor, Buckingham House, Preston PR1 3LS, Chair: Andy Birchall, 01772 223112  www.lancashiretradeunions.org.uk
• Chorley - Chorley Branch of Unite the Union are holding a memorial service at the Unite Workers Memorial Tree in Astley Park, Chorley, on Friday 25th, April  at 6pm. Meet at the Park gates (Park Road) at 5:50pm, all welcome. For More information Steve Turner (Branch Secretary) Mob- 07859369492
• Oldham Trades Council award of the Andrew Herbertson Memorial Award on Monday 28th in St George Gardens

The International Labour Organisation fully supports the day with their annual, World Day for Safety and Health at Work

Their website gives the following information:

"World Day for Safety and Health at Work is an international campaign to promote safe, healthy, and decent work. This year, as in previous years, tripartite events will be taking place world wide, and a number of products are available from this web page to support those efforts. You are invited to join us in promoting this important day.

People everywhere are exposed to safety and health risks from their work. The ILO estimates that some 6,000 workers die each day worldwide as a result of work-related accidents or illness. And occupationally related deaths appear to be on the rise. Moreover, each year there are an estimated 270 million non-fatal work-related accidents (each resulting in at least three days’ absence from work) as well as 160 million new cases of work-related diseases. The total cost of such accidents and ill health have been estimated by the ILO to equal 4 per cent of global GDP, or more than 20 times the global amount of official development assistance.

Occupational safety and health is of worldwide concern to governments, employers, workers and their families. While some industries are inherently more hazardous than others, groups such as migrant or other marginalized workers are often more at risk of experiencing work-related accidents."

Source: TUC / ILO