April
28
Independence
Day
Japan : April 28 1952
April
28 : World Day for Safety and Health at Work
2010 - Emerging risks and new patterns of prevention
The World Day for Safety and Health at Work is held yearly on
28 April, and is an international annual campaign to promote
safe, healthy and decent work.
Since 2003,
the International Labour Organization (ILO) observes the World
Day, stressing the prevention of accidents and illnesses at
work, capitalizing on its traditional strengths of tripartism
and social dialogue.
This celebration
is an integral part of the Global Strategy on Occupational Safety
and Health of the ILO, as documented in the Conclusions of the
International Labour Conference in June 2003. One of the main
pillars of the Global Strategy is advocacy, and World Day for
Safety and Health at Work is a significant tool to raise awareness
about how to make work safe and healthy and the need to raise
the political profile of occupational safety and health.
28 April
is also a day which the world's trade union movement has long
associated with commemorating victims of occupational accidents
and diseases.
Past
observances
2009 – Health and life at work: A basic human right
2008 – My life, my work, my safe work - Managing risk in the
work environment
2007 – Safe and Healthy Workplaces -Making Decent Work a Reality
2006 – Decent Work - Safe Work - HIV/AIDS
2005 – Creating and Sustaining a Preventative Safety and Health
Culture
2004 – Creating and Sustaining a Safety Culture
2003 – Safety and Health Culture In a Globalized World
About
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
The annual World Day for Safety and Health at Work on 28 April
promotes the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases
globally. It is an awareness-raising campaign intended to focus
international attention on the magnitude of the problem and
on how promoting and creating a safety and health culture can
help reduce the number of work-related deaths and injuries.
In 2003,
the International Labour Organization, ILO, began to observe
World Day in order to stress the prevention of accidents and
diseases at work, capitalizing on the ILO's traditional strengths
of tripartism and social dialogue. 28 April is also the International
Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers organized worldwide
by the trade union movement since 1996.
Each of
us is responsible for stopping deaths and injuries on the job.
As governments we are responsible for providing the infrastructure
– laws and services – necessary to ensure that workers remain
employable and that enterprises flourish; this includes the
development of a national policy and programme and a system
of inspection to enforce compliance with occupational safety
and health legislation and policy. As employers we are responsible
for ensuring that the working environment is safe and healthy.
As workers we are responsible to work safely and to protect
ourselves and not to endanger others, to know our rights and
to participate in the implementation of preventive measures.
Events
357 – Emperor
Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his
victory over Magnus Magnentius.
1192 – Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King
of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne
is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.
1253 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho
Renge Kyo for the very first time and declares it to be the
essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
1503 – The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as the
first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
1611 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University
of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines,
the largest Catholic university in the world.
1788 – Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution
of the United States.
1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18
sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti
briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day
Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War.
1796 – The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte
and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French
territory along the Mediterranean coast.
1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad
working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles
of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police,
Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on
order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.
1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester
air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
1920 – Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
1930 – The first night game in organized baseball history takes
place in Independence, Kansas.
1932 – A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
1944 – World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK
units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy
landings, killing 946.
1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed
by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance
movement.
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru
on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled
Polynesia.
1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American
ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center.
1949 – Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61,
is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory
of her late husband; her daughter and 10 others are also killed.
1950 – Bhumibol Adulyadej marries Queen Sirikit after their
quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949.
1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander
of NATO.
1952 – Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan
ends as the Treaty of San Francisco, ratified September 8, 1951,
comes into force.
1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is
signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China
to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1965 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American
troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment
of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army
troops.
1969 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
1970 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally
authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries
in Cambodia.
1975 – General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military,
departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on
victory.
1977 – The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader,
Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts
of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
1977 – The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition
of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent
Procedure is signed.
1978 – President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown
and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
1986 – The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise
becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit
the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean
Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.
1987 – American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by
U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
1988 – Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B."
Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing
737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage
rips open in mid-flight.
1994 – Former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence
officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S.
secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
1996 – Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives
a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
1996 – In Tasmania, Australia, Martin Bryant goes on a shooting
spree, killing 35 people and seriously injuring 21 more.
1999 – In Alberta, Canada, 14-year-old Todd Cameron Smith fires
upon three students, killing one and wounding another in the
W. R. Myers High School shooting.
2001 – Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space
tourist.
2008 – A train collision in Shandong, China, kills 72 people
and injures 416 more.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Louis de Montfort
Peter Chanel
Vitalis and Valeria of Milan
April 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feast of Jamál ("Beauty"), the first day of the third
month of the Bahá'í calendar. (Bahá'í Faith)
National Day of Mourning, to commemorate workers killed, injured,
or suffering illness from occupational hazards and accidents.
(Canada)
Workers Memorial Day (International)
World Day for Safety and Health at Work (International)
National Heroes Day (Barbados)
National Day (Sardinia)
The first day of the Floralia, in honor of Flora. (Roman Empire)
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