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Latest Publications
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2025
Information Sheet on Work-related Violence and Aggression in Retail
The purpose of this guidance document is to help retail employers manage the risks associated with work-related violence and aggression, and to implement suitable control measures, examples of which are provided below.
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2025
Gender Pay Gap Report 2025
We are pleased to present the Health and Safety Authority’s Gender Pay Gap Report for 2025, our third annual publication under the Gender Pay Gap Information Act 2021. This report reaffirms our commitment to transparency, equality and inclusion across all aspects of our organisation.
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2025
Safety Consultation and Representation in Health and Social Care
The purpose of this information sheet is to highlight the importance of consultation between employers and employees in the Health and Social Care sector on workplace health and safety matters. It explains the legal requirements and outlines good practice for consultation.
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2025
Driving for Work: Risk Management Guidance for Employers
This guidance document has been jointly developed by An Garda Síochána, the Health and Safety Authority and the Road Safety Authority to help employers understand and manage the main risks that working drivers face and create when driving for work.
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2025
HSA Annual Review of Workplace Injuries, Illnesses and Fatalities 2022
HSA publishes Annual Review of Workplace Injuries, Illnesses and Fatalities as European Safety Week commences.
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2025
Safety Representatives and Safety Consultation Guidelines
Updated for 2016 - These guidelines are aimed at employers, employees, safety representatives, safety committee members and safety and health practitioners.
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2025
Safe Quarry - Guidelines to the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Quarry) Regulations 2008
These guidelines on the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Quarries) Regulations 2008 were developed with the assistance and advice of a working group on quarrying safety, representative of a wide range of interests in the quarrying industry and were revised in 2020 to take account of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Quarries) (Amendment) Regulations of 2013 and the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Quarries) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 and to reflect current best practice. A download (free of charge) is currently only available.
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2025
A Short Guide to Health Surveillance in the Workplace
This short guide aims to assist employers and health professionals working on their behalf in understanding their legal requirements regarding health surveillance in the workplace. It also highlights the key elements to consider when implementing a health surveillance programme.
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2025
RCV Inspection Campaign 2024 - Findings
In July 2024, the Authority conducted a focused inspection campaign on Refuse Collection Vehicles (RCVs). Twenty-five different RCV operators were inspected. The inspection campaign targeted the provision and wearing of high visibility clothing, driver blind spots and compliance of man-riding footboards with the Irish Standard I.S. EN1501-1:2021.
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2025
Guidelines on First-Aid at Places of Work
This guidance is designed to assist employers, employees, safety representatives and others to understand the requirements set out in Chapter 2 of Part 7 of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work General Application Regulations 2007 (S.I. No. 299 of 2007) first-aid.