Published on:
23
April 2009
Provost Derek Stewart will unveil a permanent memorial to commemorate International Workers' Memorial Day next week.
Workers' Memorial Day is an international day of remembrance for workers killed, disabled, injured or made unwell by their work. It is held on 28th April every year. It is an opportunity to highlight the preventable nature of most workplace accidents and ill health, and to support campaigns that promote improvements in workplace safety.
The new memorial has been installed outside the Council headquarters at Greenfield House. It will be unveiled at 10am on Tuesday 28th April by Provost Stewart. You are invited to send a photographer.
Provost Stewart said: "Clackmannanshire Council takes the health and safety of its workforce very seriously and the Council supports the principles of Workers' Memorial Day. For these reasons we wanted to play our part in paying tribute to those that the day commemorates and have a lasting memorial in Clackmannanshire."
The Memorial Day originated in Canada in 1985 by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). Since then it has been recognised by many countries and organisations to include the Scottish TUC and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
The Clackmannanshire memorial is made of buff coloured stone is engraved with the words 'International Workers Memorial Day 28th April.'