Comments on: Australia to get a national workers’ memorial https://safetyatworkblog.com/2010/04/29/australia-to-get-a-national-workers-memorial/ Award winning news, commentary and opinion on workplace health and safety Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:29:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Kevin Jones https://safetyatworkblog.com/2010/04/29/australia-to-get-a-national-workers-memorial/#comment-3264 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:29:45 +0000 http://safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com/?p=6562#comment-3264 In reply to Craig Schopp.

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]]> By: Kevin Jones https://safetyatworkblog.com/2010/04/29/australia-to-get-a-national-workers-memorial/#comment-3263 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:28:21 +0000 http://safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com/?p=6562#comment-3263 In reply to Craig Schopp.

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]]> By: Craig Schopp https://safetyatworkblog.com/2010/04/29/australia-to-get-a-national-workers-memorial/#comment-3262 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:22:43 +0000 http://safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com/?p=6562#comment-3262 I am trying to \”subscribe\” but the process is very clumsy and i\’m not even sure if this is how you do it?? Perhaps you could simple have a \”subscribe\” link where interested parties can simply add their email details and be done with the process.
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]]> By: Craig Schopp https://safetyatworkblog.com/2010/04/29/australia-to-get-a-national-workers-memorial/#comment-3261 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:20:02 +0000 http://safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com/?p=6562#comment-3261 Please add me to your mailing list. Thanks

]]> By: Rosemary McKenzie-Ferguson https://safetyatworkblog.com/2010/04/29/australia-to-get-a-national-workers-memorial/#comment-3260 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:14:01 +0000 http://safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com/?p=6562#comment-3260 Work Injured Resouce Connection has established 3 Memorials for those who have lost their lives due to the workplace or to the WorkCover system.

1: there is a Memorial pillar in Pennington Gardens it was unveiled by Keith Brown CEO WorkCover in 2000. This is where whenever WIRC hears of a workplace fatal or suicide we go to lay flowers and release a balloon in respect for the family and the life lost.

2: the Deceased Workers Memorial Forest in Bonython Park, which after planting trees yesterday now has 140 trees and ground covers. The Deceased Workers Memorial Forest was established in 2003.

3: the Don Gage Memorial Walk this Walk is to honor the lives taken tragically due to suicide as the result of the workplace or WorkCover system.

Work Injured Resource Connection is a not-for-profit association that recieves no funding to do any of the work that is needed 7 days a week 24 hours a day.

It is good that there is going to be a National Memorial in Canberra. However if the Memorial is just a \”feel good\” thing then it will have no impact on anyone. If all that ever happens on International Day of Mourning is cheap shots about unsafe workplaces and unsafe work practices and then when the ceremony is over everyone attending returns to the very same unsafe workplace then the Memorial will have failed.

I invite Senator Doug Cameron to walk with me through the Deceased Workers Memorial Forest and to hold a balloon so that when he releases it, he can feel the agony of letting a life slip away. Then when Senator Doug Cameron returns to Canberra he can take with him the knowing of what a true Memorial is about.

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