The GAA launched a nationwide initiative to help Clubs tackle the phenomenon of Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome. The GAA purchased high-quality Automated External Defibrillators (AED) and provided them at every County Ground for on-site use by trained county...

Bubbles banned from a child's birthday party, toothpicks removed from a restaurant and a hotel cot bed left unmade are among a list of health and safety myths exposed in the past year. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said more than 150 cases had been reported to...

World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations...

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) announced the release of the Transportation Energy Futures (TEF) study, an assessment of avenues to reach deep cuts in petroleum use and greenhouse...

Environment Minister Phil Hogan recently announced that at least 25% of the 1,600 jobs created directly by Irish Water's domestic water metering programme will be given to people from small local businesses, the unemployment register and school leavers, graduates and...

A NEW STUDY  from office furniture-maker Steelcase found that new technologies like smartphones, tablets, and laptops have completely changed the way we sit at work. Specifically, the study of 2,000 people in 11 countries uncovered nine novel new postures that people...

1. In the workplace we cannot underestimate, on a daily basis, the degree to which our behaviour is influencing (positively or negatively) the behaviour of those we work with. Accordingly, starting with our own behaviour is an important mechanism to influence...

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Press Statement: The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney has today confirmed that he will be requesting Irish manufacturers of processed meat products to carry out DNA testing and to work with the...

Up to 100 Kilkenny children attended the first Health and Safety Authority ‘Keep Safe’ event of 2013 in the Watershed last week. Four local primary schools took part, namely St Patrick’s De la Salle Boys’ National School, St Canices’s National School, Scoil Mhuire...

“If you go into a butcher’s shop and buy one burger for €1.50 and then go into Tesco and buy eight burgers for €1.50, you’ve got to ask yourself what’s going on.” That is the view of Prof Alan Reilly, the chief executive of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, who...

Chris Mee has been the owner and managing director of the Chris Mee Group since 1996. The company provides safety, environmental, energy and carbon emissions services. It has offices in Cork, Dublin and London, employing 30 people full time and 80 consultants and...

Vistakon Ireland have announced an of over €100 million euro in its Limerick facility. The investment creates 100 production jobs and 200 temporary construction jobs. Richard Bruton, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, and  Michael Noonan, Minister for...

109 enforcement orders were served in 2012 by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) for breaches in food safety legislation. Comparing this to the 84 orders served in 2011, resulted in a 30% increase and also made 2012 the highest year to date for the number of...

Not washing her hands led to the previously anonymous Irish cook Mary Mallon being transformed into New York’s notorious Typhoid Mary. She was blamed for infecting more than 50 people with the disease in the early 1900s and reportedly said she rarely washed her hands...

Figures released by the HSA have shown that the number of fatal workplace injuries is at its lowest since 2009. The figures to date show that the main area of concern is once again the Agricultural sector, with the Construction industry showing a slight increase on...

Christmas whitewashing: Around Christmas time, you’ll still find the odd farm building out in the Irish countryside that looks like it’s just been whitewashed. Long ago, farm families cleaned and then whitewashed every building on the farm in December. They were...