On April 28, the “International Day of Remembrance for Victims of Occupational Accidents and Diseases” is celebrated. That year, to give the date due prominence, the Municipal Health Secretariat (SS) of the Juiz de Fora Town Hall (PJF), through its Occupational Health Surveillance Department ( Dvisat), the Municipal Health Council and the Intersectoral Commission for Occupational Health (Cistt), invite you to a table-debate, in hybrid mode, on the theme “Information, Surveillance and Health Care for workers in the today’s working world. What city do we want?

The event, which will take place at the Teatro Paschoal Carlos Magnolocated on Rua Gilberto de Alencar, behind São Sebastião Church, in the centeralso transmitted by YouTube by PJF, which will take place on Thursday 28, at 2 p.m., is open to all interested parties and is aimed at those who fight and believe in the collective construction of a universal, integral and equitable SUS. The painting will count with the participation of the Secretary of Health, Ivan Chebli; Robson Marques, General Secretary of the Bank Workers’ Union and representative of the Cistt, as mediator; and the presence online by Ronaldo Teodoro, professor at the UERJ Institute of Social Medicine and researcher at the Center for Brazilian Republican Studies (Cerbras/UFMG).

In Juiz de Fora, since 2008, the Dvisat/Regional Reference Center for Workers’ Health of Juiz de Fora (Cerest), together with the Municipal Health Council, the members of the Cistt and the representatives of the workers’ unions, have celebrated this very meaningful and symbolic, each year, as a way to create a local culture of resistance and appreciation.

International Day in Memory of Victims of Occupational Accidents and Diseases

On April 28, 1969, a mine explosion in the state of Virginia, United States, killed dozens of workers. This date has been dedicated by the International Labor Organization (ILO) as the “International Day in memory of victims of accidents and diseases at work”.

The first celebrations of this day, however, came from the initiative of the Canadian labor movement and the example was followed by many other countries. In 2003, the ILO incorporated and formalized the date as a day of mourning for workers who are victims in the exercise of their profession throughout the world.

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