Relatives of people killed at work are set to attend Waltham Forest Trade Council's annual Worker’s Memorial Day.

The gathering outside Walthamstow Assembly Hall, in Forest Road, to commemorate the lives of men who died whilst at work will take place today.

Marian Nemit, 21, killed on a shop refurbishment site at the Bakers Arms, Leyton and 16-year-old Alfie Perrin who fell from a scaffold in Wansted in 2012 will be remembered.

Kevin Campbell, 46, from Poplar who was killed at the Stratford DLR site in March and Raymond Holmes a GMB member who died in 2012 on the Coppermill Thames Water site will also be commemorated.

Stella Creasy MP is among speakers expected to attend the event at 1pm.

Dave Knight, President of organisers Waltham Forest Trades Council said: "The United Nations say there are more people killed at work every year than those killed by war and that the majority of these workplace deaths are predictable, preventable and caused by negligent employers.

“That is why every year we mark 28 April by remembering those killed at and by work, and recommitting to the fight to stop the damage work does."

“We will be there to remember the dead, and fight like hell for the living.”