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The United Steelworkers (USW) Local 959 safety committee leapt into action a few years ago after discovering that more and more workers at the Goodyear plant in Fayetteville, North Carolina, were exposed to knife injuries on the job.
Committee members solicited workers input on how to address the hazard and then collaborated with the company to provide cut-resistant gloves, introduce more safely designed knives and take other steps to bring the crisis under control. It was our number one injury at the plant, recalled Ronald Sessoms, Local 959 safety chairman. Now, we ve almost eliminated it.
DECATUR â As bagpiper Griffin Coffman played in the background, Lloyd Holman, co-chairman of the Workers Memorial Day ceremony for Decatur Trades & Labor Assembly, read the dozens and dozens of names of Macon County workers who have died on the job.
State Sen. Doris Turner, D-Springfield, was the keynote speaker at the Workers Memorial Day ceremony. CLAY JACKSON, HERALD & REVIEW
Three of those names were new this year: Erick T. Ervin, who worked for Love s Truck Stop and died while trying to rescue a stranded motorist; John E. Sheehy, a firefighter; and State Trooper Todd Hanneken, the most recent death on March 25. Hanneken s family was present to lay the wreath at the memorial on the west side of the Macon County Courthouse.
Apr 29, 2021
Arlington, VA – On Workers Memorial Day, the National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) joins companies and workers throughout the United States in remembering those who did not come home from work this past year. We ask all members to observe a moment of silence to remember the men and women who did not make it home safely and to protect our workers as they continue to keep our communities safe and clean.
“This past year, waste collection workers have been on the frontlines of the COVID-19 global pandemic. They faced this added challenge with great professionalism,” said NWRA President and CEO Darrell Smith. “We pause to honor those who did not complete their shift and whose families are changed forever. If we are to become a safer industry, we need remember those who have passed and remain committed to protecting the living.”
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Umahi directed them to register with the state government within seven days.
He gave the order after the weekly state security council meeting in Abakaliki, the state capital on Wednesday, NAN reports.
The governor warned that those who flout his directive would be arrested and made to face the wrath of the law.
“There would be an executive order to this effect and anyone caught doing otherwise would be arrested and prosecuted,” he said.
Umahi also ordered that all wake-keeps and other social activities in the state must end by 6 p.m.
He directed council chairmen and security agents to enforce the order.
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to recognise COVID-19 (Coronavirus) as a workplace disease, notifiable and compensable occupational hazard.
The NLC President, Mr Ayuba Wabba, disclosed this in a statement commemorating the 2021 International Workers Memorial Day, with the theme “Save Lives at Work,” on Wednesday in Abuja.
Wabba stated that this was significant coming at the epoch of the global fight against the virus.
According to him,”The contribution of frontline workers, especially healthcare workers, is a formidable buffer between deaths in thousands and deaths in millions.
“Everyday, our healthcare workers courageously dare the stare of death in selfless service to rescue the lives of others.