Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2012, published 102nd ILC session (2013)

Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) - Ireland (Ratification: 1995)

Article 8 of the Convention. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government, and in particular the reference to recent texts that have been adopted, including regulations and codes of practice issued under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act, 2005, which give further effect to this provision of the Convention. The Committee invites the Government to continue to provide information on the application of Article 8 of the Convention.

Part V of the report form. Application in practice. The Committee welcomes the detailed information contained in the Health and Safety Authority’s Annual Reports and the publications summarizing workplace injury, illness and fatality statistics. The Committee in particular notes with interest the detailed statistical information, disaggregated by sector, occupation, gender, age, nationality, injury and illness type, etc. contained in the Health and Safety Authority’s Summary of Workplace Injury, Illness and Fatality Statistics 2009–10. The Committee notes that the highest number of recorded fatalities in 2010 was in the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector and that the rate of fatalities per 100,000 workers in this sector has seen a significant increase in 2010 compared with previous years. The Committee requests the Government to provide further information on the measures taken or envisaged to address the increase in recorded fatalities in the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector, and to continue to supply information on the application of the Convention in practice.