A report drawn up by Mairead Conroy of Access Ability – /Supporting an injured worker’s return to work/ – and presented to Tony Killeen, the Minister for Labour Affairs, in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, explains to a large degree the necessity for the /Workplace Safety Code/
Over 90% of Irish workers are satisfied with their job, although 82% believe that they work very hard and 72% find their job stressful at least some of the time. One in five employees works part time and a similar proportion is involved in pay-related performance schemes. These are among the
In 2005, the Irish government enacted legislation to update Ireland’s occupational health and safety laws. Section 60 of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 [1] gave the Irish Health and Safety Authority (HSA [2]) power to develop codes of practice, which would allow employers employing
The Irish Health and Safety Authority (HSA) is a government agency with statutory responsibility to advise the government on occupational health and safety [1], and to promote awareness of and to enforce occupational health and safety legislation. Earlier in the year, the HSA published its annual
Some years ago, the Irish government’s Department of Health and Children [1] identified the workplace as a key setting to promote the health and well-being of the country’s adult population. The SME Workplace Health Project in County Roscommon, in the centre of Ireland, was set up to address the