Nineteen prosecutions for breaches of workplace health and safety legislation resulted in fines totalling more than €1.3 million last year, theOne employer in Tipperary was sentenced to 12 months in prison after a vehicle that was unable to brake resulted in the death of an employee and the injury of another.
The HSA carried out 10,683 investigations in 2023, resulting in 404 improvement notices, 290 prohibition notices and 7,373 pieces of written advice. Twenty deaths were in the agriculture sector, 16 of which were farmers, while a further 11 were in construction. It was a significant increase from 2022 when 28 workplace fatalities were recorded, the lowest on record since the establishment of the HSA in 1989.
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