Thursday 25 April 2019

Blacktown City Council - Media Release -International Day of Mourning



24 April 2019

Blacktown City Council will stage a solemn ceremony to mark

the International Day of Mourning for workers who die or are

injured in the workplace.


Mayor Bali, Councillors and senior Council staff will join

Unions, Workcover and members of the community for the 

annual commemoration.


“It is important that all workers should leave home confident 

they will return to their families and we mourn the deaths of 

those killed in workplace accidents,” Blacktown City Mayor, 

Stephen Bali MP said.


The memorial will be held at Blacktown Showground, 

Richmond Road, Blacktown, on Sunday 28 April at 10 am 

alongside the memorial sculpture erected by Blacktown City 

Council in 2017.


Mayor Bali said the commemoration service marks an 

important national day of reflection.


“The International Day of Mourning is a time when we 

remember, pause and commemorate workers who have 

died,’ Mayor Bali said.


“We are too often reminded of the horrendous and tragic 

outcomes of unsafe workplace incidents and it is therefore a 

time to remind ourselves to look after one another.


“It is a time to ensure that safety remains one of the highest 

priorities within our workplaces and an opportunity to 

highlight the preventable nature of most workplace incidents 

and ill health.”


If you would like to attend the ceremony, please RSVP as 
soon as possible via email 


The commemorative plaque and workers’ memorial sculpture

 at Blacktown Showground.

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