Workers at risk due to safety funding cutbacks

MORE people will be killed in workplace accidents because of cutbacks in safety funding.

SIPTU’S Dublin construction branch secretary, Eric Fleming, claimed the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) had been forced to cut the number of site inspections from a projected 8,000 per year to 4,500 because of reduced funding.

Just before Christmas last year, four building workers died in quick succession as a result of building site accidents.