The Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration joined families, workers, advocates and labor organizations at the Workers Memorial Day ceremony April 28 at the Nebraska Capitol building.
The ceremony remembered each person who lost their life while doing their job, according to an April 22 news release. It also recognizes the impacts families, co-workers and communities face due to these tragic losses.
“The United Support and Memorial for Workplace Fatalities has turned grief into action by working to provide awareness and educate the public on workplace safety issues,” Jim Frederick, deputy assistant secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, said, according to the release.
United Support and Memorial for Workplace Fatalities is a nonprofit grassroots organization. The organization aims to offer support, guidance, as well as resources, to families that have been affected by incidents, diseases and/or illnesses that are work-related, the release reported.
Frederick said the organization worked with OSHA to find methods to communicate OSHA fatality findings to workers’ families and create a new Workers Memorial webpage, the release said.
“The signing of this alliance will help us raise the voices of families whose loved ones failed to return home from a job,” Frederick said, according to the release.
