On April 28, Canada and more than 80 countries worldwide to remember those who died, were injured or became ill at work. The Day of Mourning offers employees and employers the opportunity to publicly renew their commitment to improve health and safety in the workplace.

     In 2013, just over 25,000 Nova Scotians were injured on the job, with a few more than 6,300 of them injured seriously enough to lose time from work. Sadly, there were 34 workplace fatalities in Nova Scotia last year. To date, there have been two fatalities in 2014 not including those who died away from work due to unrecognized or undiagnosed occupational related illnesses.

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