Workers' Memorial Day (International Workers' Memorial Day) or International Commemoration Day (ICD) for Dead and Injured or Day of Mourning takes place annually around the world on April 28.
An international day of remembrance and action for workers killed, disabled, injured or made unwell by their work.
Workers' Memorial Day is an opportunity to highlight the preventable nature of most workplace incidents and ill health and to promote campaigns and union organisation in the fight for improvements in workplace safety.
The slogan for the day is Remember the dead – Fight for the living.
