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Latest Publications
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2025
Inspection Process Survey - Research Report
This is an independent report of HSA inspections.
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2025
Guidelines on the Safety of Powered Gates
The purpose of this guidance is to assist those who have any responsibility for the specification, design, manufacture, purchase, installation, maintenance, inspection or use of powered gates.
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2025
Ergonomics - Good Practice in the Irish Workplace
This publication demonstrates examples of how companies introduced a range of engineering and organisational improvements in the way work is carried out to avoid or reduce the risk of musculoskeletal injury. It describes a range of measures that companies can consider to minimise exposure of their workforce to poor ergonomic conditions.
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2025
Code of Practice for Health and Safety in Dock Work
Safe ports make for efficient ports which are well positioned to support Ireland’s economy and create employment through export led growth.
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2025
Client and Contractor Code of Conduct at Quarrying Locations
This document was prepared from the QNJAC code of conduct for clients and contractors and the Health and Safety Authority gratefully acknowledge their assistance.
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2025
Workplace Risks and Worker Outcomes in Ireland from a Comparative Perspective: An Analysis of the European Working Conditions Survey, 2005 and 2010
The European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) is a key survey on working conditions managed by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.
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2025
Safety Representatives Resource Book
The purpose of this book is clear from the title: it is a resource book. It is specifically a resource book for safety representatives, but the hope and indeed the expectation is that it is a resource to which employers, their occupational health and safety advisors, employees and the self-employed will refer.
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2025
Guide on Manual Handling Risk Management in Transport and Storage
This guide gives practical information on actions that can be taken to manage the potential hazard of manual handling in transport and storage.
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2025
Driving for Work - Driver Health Guidelines
The aim of these guidelines is to make working drivers more aware of the main health issues that may affect them and, consequently, to improve their ability to drive safely.
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2025
Behaviour Based Safety Guide
This guide is informed by the field of Behaviour-Based Safety, which is often described as a bottom-up approach, with top-down support from safety leaders.