International Day of Mourning

Published on 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 [email protected]