The World Day for Safety and Health at Work is set for April 28 on the initiative of the International Organization to organize a safe workplace climate and to prevent accidents and illnesses in production. It is believed that improving the culture of work will contribute to reducing mortality and injuries in the production process. The day of safety and labor protection began to be celebrated since 2001.
Purpose of the holiday
Safe working conditions should exclude the impact on workers of harmful or dangerous production circumstances, or the level of their influence must be within the limits of the norm. To this end, labor protection departments are being set up at the enterprises, specialists, engineers are working, on the day of April 28 and during the remaining periods they conduct briefings on safe work, according to the rules for providing first aid .
This requires comprehensive legal, socio-economic, organizational, technical, sanitary, therapeutic and preventive, rehabilitation and preventive actions. This is a whole system of labor protection, which is created in any enterprise to save the lives and health of hired workers.
Events on the day of the holiday are organized by local authorities, trade unions, they are aimed at attracting public attention to existing problems in working conditions. Their goal is the formation of a culture of protection, where the government, employers and specialists jointly provide a safe industrial environment for a person.
Conferences, round tables, seminars are held, corners, stands, fairs of overalls and means of protection are made out, advanced experience of successful enterprises in this direction extends.
The measures for the Labor Protection Day are designed to make jobs less dangerous and to preserve the health of workers during production activities.