Museum chiefs tonight admitted they were “very lucky” no-one had died after 11 people were injured when a limestone staircase collapsed underneath them.

Urgent talks are being held between management and baggage handlers at Aer Lingus today in a bid to end a dispute over the airline’s new check-in area at Dublin Airport.

The festive season has proved a particularly dangerous time on Irish farms with 16% of all deaths occurring around Christmas, it was warned today.

The losses of 17 lives on Irish farms so far this year have sparked the biggest ever Government agricultural safety campaign, it was confirmed today.

Fines totalling €250,000 have been imposed on two companies and suspended prison sentences on two men arising out of the death of a young father of one on a Bray building site.

New regulations governing the control of noise at work will be enforced in a bid to lower the risks posed by exposure to excessive sound levels from machinery, safety bosses warned today.

Cash-in-transit workers will be better protected from ‘tiger’ kidnappings and violent attacks due to new safety guidelines, it was claimed today.

An inspection blitz carried out in the wake of the Navan bus crash has uncovered serious safety flaws at local authority roadworks across the entire country.

Four people have died this week alone in workplace accidents.

The Health Service Executive is to temporarily shelve its faulty payroll system tomorrow until it is re-examined, Health Minister Mary revealed tonight.

New rules aimed at making workplaces safer came into force today with employers that flout the laws warned they face two years in jail or fines of up to €3m.

The number of work-related deaths could be 10 times higher than what is reported, union leaders warned today.

New health and safety laws for the workplace could fine firms up to €3m or jail bosses for a maximum of two years.

The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) should urgently examine the National Aquatic Centre after a damning report found 126 cracks in pool walls, it was claimed today.

Construction workers on the controversial €9m Eyre Square redevelopment in Galway city today walked off site.

Dangerous and dirty conditions in primary schools across the country have been revealed in a new report by the Health and Safety Authority.

The Health and Safety Authority is to inspect 11 accident and emergency units across the country in the next month, it emerged tonight.

The Health and Safety Authority is poised to inspect Accident and Emergency departments around the country this weekend.

THE Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has warned farmers to be extra cautious during the summer season. It follows a spate of farm-related accidents and fatalities.

An expert group is to be set up to look into ways of winning the war against workplace bullies, the Government said today.

Sixty-five people were killed in workplace accidents last year, according to the Health and Safety Authority’s annual report for 2003.

Chemical company ADM of Ringaskiddy was convicted and fined €30,000 today after pleading guilty to two criminal offences of breaching health and safety legislation after a fatal accident at the plant two years ago.

The Health and Safety Authority has called for increased vigilance in the workplace, and especially on farms.

The Health and Safety Authority has launched an investigation into the death of a worker on a construction site in Co Offaly yesterday evening.

A new ventilation system designed by Irish company DionX Limited will reach the requirement needed to achieve clean air levels in hospitality industry, research has claimed.

THE Jury's Doyle hotel in Limerick, where Gráinne Dillon was murdered 21 months ago, will not be prosecuted, the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) revealed yesterday.

The Health and Safety Authority has announced plans to conduct an inspections blitz on construction sites throughout Ireland over the coming two weeks.

The Health and Safety Authority is reportedly planning to recommend that the Government designate second-hand smoke as a "cancer-causing agent".