Health and Safety Authority to launch summer safety blitz

The Health and Safety Authority is preparing to carry out a countrywide inspection blitz in a bid to halt spiralling fatalities in the quarrying and construction sectors.

Inspectors will visit sites across the country throughout the summer to ensure safety regulations are being enforced.
The authority has warned that non-compliant sites will be shut down and that prosecutions will be taken.

So far this year 23 people have been killed in work related accidents. Nine deaths occurred in the quarrying and construction sectors.

“This is about people in charge of sites taking responsibility to make sure they have a safe site. We’ll be very insistent that there is compliance with the law and the regulations. We won’t have any tolerance,” chief executive Tony Beegan commented.