Health & Safety

Congress believes the " No Excuses" major national awareness campaign on sexual harassment and sexual violence launched today is indeed a timely initiative. 2018 research carried out by Red C research reported that Ireland has the highest level of claimed sexual harassment in Europe with 32% of...

In its 25th anniversary year, EU-OSHA reflects on the significance of the 1989 Framework Directive on Safety and Health at Work and looks forward to supporting a more recent initiative to make Europe's workplaces safer and healthier: the European Pillar of Social Rights. Join us in celebrating the...

Judge Rory McCabe at Castlebar Circuit Court, imposed a fine of €500,000 on Harrington Concrete and Quarries ULC for three separate breaches of health and safety legislation. The company, Harrington Concrete and Quarries ULC, had earlier pleaded guilty to three offences under the Safety, Health and...

Patricia Murray Senior Organisational Psychologist with the Health and Safety Authority was a recent guest speaker at a seminar organised by the ICTU Health and Safety Mental Health sub-committee. The seminar focused on what trade unions can do about the issue of mental health in the workplace...

A good starting point for engaging people with the Healthy Workplaces Manage Dangerous Substances campaign is the campaign video. It gives a visual, user-friendly and comprehensive overview of the topic and information on exposure and how it can be prevented. The video also presents facts and...

New data on exposure to dangerous substances at work

Figures released by the Health and Safety Authority today (Tuesday 8 th January) show that 37 people were killed in work related accidents in 2018, a decline of 23% on 2017 and the lowest figure since the establishment of the Authority in 1989. The farming sector, which has consistently been the...

A new Code of Practice for Access and Working Scaffolding has been published by the HSA. The aim of this Code of Practice is to provide practical guidance to scaffold erectors, contractors and users of scaffolding on the requirements and prohibitions set out in the relevant statutory provisions. The...

Trade union networks: a response to occupational health in small firms? The results of a project on best practices for organising worker representation for health and safety were presented at a seminar organised in Brussels on 29 November. This seminar allowed trade union activists to describe their...