Quarry Safety Week

Quarry Safety Week runs from Monday to Friday, August 15 – 19 inclusive, with a new initiative launched by the Health and Safety Authority.

The initiative takes the form of a poster that highlights the six critical risk areas to be given particular attention by quarry workers.
The poster is being circulated to all quarries in the country and the Health and Safety Authority hopes it will prove to be a useful tool in imparting critical safety information to all quarry workers.

To complement the poster campaign the authority will be carrying out upwards on 120 quarry inspections in the coming days to ensure consistency in the sector.
Senior Inspector Pat Griffin commented: “We are very concerned with having four fatalities already this year, especially after the work that we, and indeed the industry have done over the last few years.”

He continued: “We have renewed our determination to ensure that workers and employers put safety at the top of their agendas and believe that the employee information poster, if read and followed by workers, along with the inspections and company initiatives during Quarry Safety Week will help us to get back on the road towards zero fatalities.”