Workers Memorial Day ceremony to honor Oregon workers who died on the job in 2022 – KTVZ

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – It’s a day to recollect those that died on the job. It’s a day to grieve with households, buddies, and communities. It’s a day to resume our accountability to create and keep secure and wholesome workplaces for all employees in Oregon.

Oregon employees who died on the job shall be honored with a ceremony Friday, April 28, at midday in Salem. The Occupational Security and Well being Division (Oregon OSHA) – a part of the Oregon Division of Shopper and Enterprise Providers – and the Oregon AFL-CIO invite all Oregonians to attend the Employees Memorial Day observance.

Oregon AFL-CIO will livestream the ceremony at www.fb.com/oregonaflcio.

The in-person occasion will happen on the Fallen Employees Memorial exterior the Labor and Industries Constructing, 350 Winter St. NE, on the Capitol Mall. The memorial service, coordinated by the Oregon AFL-CIO, will function remarks from Bob Livingston, labor liaison for Gov. Tina Kotek, and state Reps. Dacia Grayber and Travis Nelson. 

The ceremony will embrace the studying of the names of Oregon employees who died on the job in 2022.

“Employees are the spine of this state,” Gov. Kotek stated. “Immediately and every single day, we should honor Oregon employees who’ve tragically misplaced their lives whereas working to make our state a greater place. As we stand with their households and help them by means of their grief, I’ll decide to at all times pushing for safer working situations throughout the state to make sure the well being and well-being of our employees.”

Oregon OSHA Administrator Renée Stapleton and Oregon AFL-CIO President Graham Trainor will even be among the many occasion audio system.

Oregon workplaces are safer and more healthy right now than in earlier a long time. But, there are nonetheless far too many preventable on-the-job deaths every year. 

“We now have to do higher for Oregon’s employees, as a result of everybody deserves to count on to return residence safely from a day’s work,” Trainor stated. “We’ve made progress on office security, however our work isn’t accomplished. Annually, 1000’s of employees are killed, and tens of millions extra undergo damage and sickness due to harmful working situations which might be preventable. On April 28, Oregon’s unions will recommit ourselves to doing all the things we will to enhance office security.” 

By a partnership of labor, enterprise, and authorities working collectively to bolster office security and well being, Oregon’s fatality and damage and sickness charges have steadily declined for many years.

Nonetheless, there may be room for enchancment.

“As we honor the recollections of the lives tragically taken from us, we should not waver in our dedication to defending the security and well being of all employees in Oregon,” Stapleton stated. “As a substitute, we should renew our dedication. We should achieve this by persevering with to coach employees about their unequivocal proper to a secure and wholesome office. We should achieve this by redoubling our efforts to verify the message to employers is equally unmistakable: That they’re obligated to guard their employees from hurt. And we should achieve this by directing our sources to the utmost extent doable to establish and get rid of office hazards.”

The annual Employees Memorial Day serves as a nationwide day of remembrance. The observance is historically held on April 28 as a result of Congress handed the Occupational Security and Well being Act on that date in 1970.

Sources can be found to employees and employers to advance on-the-job security and well being in Oregon, together with:

Oregon OSHA

DCBS Multicultural Communications Program

Ombuds Workplace for Oregon Employees

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Oregon OSHA, a division of the Division of Shopper and Enterprise Providers, enforces the state’s office security and well being guidelines and works to enhance office security and well being for all Oregon employees. For extra data, go to Oregon OSHA.

The Division of Shopper and Enterprise Providers is Oregon’s largest enterprise regulatory and client safety company. For extra data, go to DCBS. 

The Oregon AFL-CIO is the statewide federation of affiliated unions, representing greater than 300,000 working Oregonians.  For extra data, go to Oregon AFL-CIO.