Apr-28-14 Commissioner Wirths Represents Governor Christie on Workers Memorial Day
Proclamation Read at Wreath-Presentation Ceremony Honoring Workers Killed on the Job
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Commissioner Wirths presented a proclamation from Governor Chris Christie honoring Workers Memorial Day, which has been officially observed annually on April 28 since 1989. New Jersey has a long-standing record of surpassing the national average in on-the-job safety, with fewer people injured at work in both the private and public sector of employment.
“However, these statistics do not adequately reflect the reality felt by workers and their families who face the pain and reduced earnings every single day because of an accident, injury or illness that happened on the job,” said Commissioner Wirths. “To each injured worker and their family, and to every family who had a loved one killed on the job, any accident or injury is one too many. We will never let the statistics make us complacent about the safety of workers.”
Commissioner Harold J. Wirths presented a proclamation from Governor Chris Christie
honoring Workers Memorial Day to Robert Weissman of the New Jersey Industrial
Safety Committee. Pictured to the far right is Robert Sagendorf, President of the NJISC,
and to the far left is Patricia Jones, Director of the area office of the federal Occupational
Safety and Health Administration.
