This year UNISON
Housing Association Branch will be remembering those who have died at work due
to accidents at work or from work related ill health & diseases. It is also
a campaigning day to fight for the living at work and their health and safety.
We will holding a wreath laying event at the
"Clasping Hands" statute in Three Mills Green, Stratford, London E3 3DU at 1pm
on Friday 28 April 2023. We have held this event now for many years but hope to
get a good turn out post Covid.
This beautiful statue is near the site of a
ventilation shaft where 4 workers died in 1900. 3 of them perished while
heroically trying to rescue a fellow worker.
Local MP, Lyn Brown is attending and all trade
unionists will be welcome as well as safety advisors and anyone else, genuinely
interested in health and safety at work.
Please bring your trade union and
Labour movement banners.
UNISON members from the nearby
L&Q Housing headquarters will be walking to the site beforehand. The wreath
laying and talk about what happened here and why it is important should last no
more than 30 minutes or so.
If you are unable to attend this
event then check out the TUC
website for events local to you or arrange with your
employer to carry out a general walkabout safety inspection of your workplace
looking for obvious hazards. It is also Stress Awareness month so check on
stress risk assessment arrangements and occupational health support for
workers.
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