Students Abbey Hehir, Rebecca Murphy and Ryely Cantrell from Co Clare were the overall winners of the ABP Farm Safety Award at the 2020 BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition (BTYSTE) with their innovative Slurry Pit Saver project.

More people died last year as a result of accidents in the workplace than in the year before.

Nearly 200 complaints of workplace bullying have been made to the Health and Safety Authority over the past four years.

Construction worker fatalities have decreased by almost 50% since 2015, and the industry has also seen a reduction in the number of non-fatal accidents over the same time frame.

Lorenzo may have passed, but the public has been cautioned the tail-end of the storm conditions continue to pose dangers, and those in coastal areas have been urged to remain vigilant.

A 70-year-old man who was killed in a farming accident in Leap, Co Cork yesterday afternoon has been named locally as Thomas Hill.

The Scally Report into the CervicalCheck scandal revealed that more than 90,000 smears were being sent there without the knowledge or approval of CervicalCheck.

The crane removing a catch of fish from a boat snapped and part of it landed on a van which had two people inside.

An “inspection blitz” will be carried out on dozens of quarries next week by the Health and Safety Authority.

The man was fatally injured in the incident which occurred in the North Docks area at around 10.30am.

The incident happened at around 10.15am at Ennis Mart on the outskirts of the town.

Construction accidents are declining despite a huge increase in activity, it has emerged.

The Air Corps “seems to be a place where there’s an abnormal number of people who die prematurely”, according to a member of the Oireachtas’ Public Account Committee.

Osvaldo Rea had been running the popular Bistro Restaurant on the South Circular Road in Dublin for thirty years.

“Minister Kehoe is constantly at pains to point out how safety, health and well-being of Air Corps personnel are of primary concern but his lack of action shows he doesn't give a damn."

An architect has been fined €2,500 for breaching health and safety laws in connection with a fatal workplace accident during renovations at his south Dublin home.

Farmers, road users, and machinery contractors are being urged to take extra care on the roads and in the fields and farmyards as silage cutting season continues and the school holidays begin.

A man has been killed in an industrial accident in Wexford.