Title: A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of Workers' Memorial Day, honoring workers who have been killed or injured in the workplace, and recognizing the importance of strengthening worker health and safety protections.
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
This resolution expresses support for the goals and ideals of Workers' Memorial Day, which honors workers killed or injured in the workplace.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 600 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 600

  Supporting the goals and ideals of Workers' Memorial Day, honoring 
     workers who have been killed or injured in the workplace, and 
 recognizing the importance of strengthening worker health and safety 
                              protections.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 28, 2022

  Ms. Baldwin (for herself, Mr. Casey, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Padilla, Mrs. 
  Feinstein, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Hassan, Mr. 
    Hickenlooper, Mr. Lujan, Ms. Smith, Mr. Brown, Mr. Cardin, Mrs. 
Shaheen, and Mr. Van Hollen) submitted the following resolution; which 
was referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Supporting the goals and ideals of Workers' Memorial Day, honoring 
     workers who have been killed or injured in the workplace, and 
 recognizing the importance of strengthening worker health and safety 
                              protections.

Whereas 4,764 workers were killed in the United States due to job-related 
        traumatic injuries in 2020, and 120,000 workers die in the United States 
        each year from job-related diseases;
Whereas, each day, in total, an average of 340 workers die from job-related 
        injuries and illnesses in the United States;
Whereas, annually, there are more than 3,200,000 occupational injuries in the 
        United States;
Whereas tens of thousands of individuals in the United States with workplace-
        related injuries or illnesses have become permanently disabled;
Whereas the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (referred to in this 
        preamble as ``OSHA''), the primary Federal agency that establishes and 
        enforces workplace health and safety standards--

    (1) only has sufficient resources to inspect each establishment within 
the jurisdiction of OSHA once every 236 years; and

    (2) must receive the resources necessary to adequately protect the 
health and safety of workers in the United States;

Whereas workers continue to face serious risks of injury, illness and death from 
        COVID-19, infectious diseases, heat exposure, and workplace violence;
Whereas millions of workers have been infected with COVID-19, and thousands of 
        workers in the United States alone have died from COVID-19;
Whereas these injuries, illnesses, and deaths are preventable; and
Whereas observing Workers' Memorial Day--

    (1) allows the people of the United States to honor and remember 
victims of workplace-related injuries and disease; and

    (2) reminds the people of the United States to strive for better safety 
and health protections for workers: Now, therefore, be it

    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) supports the goals and ideals of Workers' Memorial Day 
        to honor and remember workers who have been killed or injured 
        in the workplace;
            (2) recognizes the importance of strengthening worker 
        health and safety standards to secure the safe workplaces 
        workers deserve;
            (3) encourages the Occupational Safety and Health 
        Administration, the Mine Safety and Health Administration, 
        employers, community and worker organizations, professional 
        associations, and academic institutions to support activities 
        increasing awareness of the importance of preventing illness, 
        injury, and death in the workplace; and
            (4) calls upon the people of the United States to observe 
        Workers' Memorial Day with appropriate ceremonies and respect.
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