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Irish construction site safety — fall protection, PPE, site inductions, and the hazards that drive HSA enforcement on building sites across Ireland.
A chainsaw does not need to touch a live wire to kill someone. The electricity will cross the gap first. That is the physical reality that a tree surgeon in the Irish midlands discovered when a branch he was felling...
A compost facility and a concrete plant. Different industries, similar outcomes. When the HSA finished its investigations, both companies were staring at prosecution files, not improvement notices. What Separates a Fine...
Asbestos kills more construction workers in Ireland and the UK each year than any other single occupational cause. Not accidents. Not falls. A material that was enthusiastically specified into buildings for decades,...
A worker who spent twenty years on Irish sites once described the tingling in his fingers as "just part of the job." He retired at 58 unable to button his own shirt. That is what hand-arm vibration syndrome...
A drone appearing over your construction site means one of two things: someone is doing a survey, or someone is dead. The Health and Safety Authority has made drones a standard part of serious incident investigation,...
Most Irish construction sites have a project supervisor. Far fewer have one who actually knows what the job requires. The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Construction) Regulations 2013 split supervisory...
Why Construction Falls Keep Happening (And What Your Site Should Do Instead) Falls from height remain the single biggest killer in Irish construction. Not near the top. First. The Message Isn't the Problem Every April,...