Health and Safety Authority tackles 1,000 workplaces

The Health and Safety Authority was forced to take enforcement action in almost 1,000 of the workplaces it inspected last year, its annual report shows.

The authority said it was continuing to regularly encounter employers who “allowed workplace conditions that pose serious risk of injury or ill health to themselves, their employees and members of the public”.

It carried out 15,340 inspections and investigations, of which 7% resulted in formal enforcement action.