Companies ‘tipped off’ about safety inspections
SIPTU also said that given the Health and Safety Authority’s rate of inspections of approximately 14,000 per year — out of a total of 200,000 workplaces — each location could on average only expect a visit every 14.5 years.
The union’s safety and health adviser, Sylvester Cronin, also accused the Government of under-reporting workplace deaths by only counting those workers killed as a result of an accident inside the workplace and omitting count deaths caused by work-related illnesses and diseases.
