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Tens of thousands of the estimated over 157,000 people who dies from Covid-19, contracted the virus whilst in work, and still do today! We all know of the terrible price paid by NHS Nurses, Doctors, Surgeons and ancillary workers and care workers in the hundreds of private nursing homes, and visiting patients in their homes. Indeed this website paid tribute to some of the victims who worked without proper Personal Protective Equipment whilst the Government and the HSE stood by.
Whilst the Government's pandering to their 'private industry' friends and 'VIP listed mates' of Tory MPs; the corruption in Government and in supplying manufacturers who provided substandard PPE in the form of facemasks and equipment such as ventilators; cost most of those lives in 2020./21 The reality is that even now in 2022, workers are losing their lives to the virus as a result of the lack of appropriate risk assessments and mitigating work procedures and conditions such as lack of ventilation, contaminated air conditioning systems, lack of social distancing and forcing workers who have been positively tested for Covid-19 to none-the less continue to go to work or suffer loss of pay or disciplinary action and even losing their jobs. The toll of deaths caused by contracting the pandemic at work has not been accurately measured, but never the less, we must remember them on this year's International Worker's Memorial Day being held on 28th April as it is every year around the world. Hazards Campaign has been raising the issue of ventilation in work places since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, yet despite the HSE updating their advice over air conditioning systems in the workplace, they have never prosecuted a single employer whose negligence has caused the deaths from Covid of their employees.
Every year. Trade Unions, health & safety campaign groups and organisations fighting for workplaces to be made safe; gather together on the 28th April to pay tribute to those workers who have lost their lives at work and through work, including those who tragically are driven to take their own lives due to workplace pressures and stress; and sometime even due to injuries sustained at work which changes their lives forever. Whilst in the UK, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) refuse to count workplace related suicides in their official statistics which are dismal in their recording accurately of work related deaths; campaign groups such as Hazards and Trade Unions and eminent academics like Professor Steve Tombs and Rory O'Neill, have been lobbying for years on the issue of accurate and appropriate death at work statistics being produced. Work related deaths should include road collisions and accidents resulting in death of those whose work is driving, and to work as well as other forms of commuting to and from work e.g. trains and planes or even ferries in the event a worker loses their life whilst traveling. Subsequent death through injury in these circumstances, should also be included in official death at work figures. Yet to this day, none of the working people below working for the NHS and Care Homes and social care services who contracted Covid and subsequently dies from the virus, have been included in death at work statistics as far as we are aware. ON THE 28TH APRIL 2022 JOIN US ON INTERNATIONAL WORKER'S MEMORIAL DAY IN A PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION OF SUPPORT AND IN MEMORIA FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES THROUGH ACCIDENTS AT WORK AND FOR THOSE TOO WHO LOST THEIR LIVES THROUGH CONTRACTIN COVID IN THEIR WORKPLACES. Unionsafety will bring you a list of events in the UK, that you can attend on the day.
Source: unionsafety / Hazards / Social News Feeds / NHS
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