JARIC St Vincent Ltd to hold breakfast seminar on workplace safety

on Thursday, April 28th, World Day for Safety and Health at Work and International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers will be celebrated locally with a breakfast seminar.

The event is being organized by JARIC St Vincent Limited and will be held at the Sunset Shores Hotel at Villa from 7.30 to 10 a.m., under the theme, “Making a Business Case for Safety and Health in the Workplace”.{{more}}

The annual World Day for Safety and Health at Work seeks to promote 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.

A JARIC release states: “Today, many workers are facing greater pressure to meet the demands of modern working life. Psychosocial risks, such as increased competition, higher expectations on performance and longer working hours, are contributing to the workplace becoming an ever more stressful environment. With the pace of work dictated by instant communications and high levels of global competition, the lines separating work from life are becoming more and more difficult to identify”.

This year, the theme of World Day for Safety and Health at Work is “Workplace Stress: a collective challenge.”