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2017
Requirements for Construction Site Welfare Facilities
This following guidance has been updated in order to comply with current legislation in particular the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Construction) Regulations 2013 Part 14 Construction Site Welfare Facilities.
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2017
Preventing Slips, Trips and Falls at Work - Information Sheet
A greater percentage of slips, trips and falls (STF) result in absences from work of one month or more. This information sheet will help you understand how to control work-related STF.
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2017
Crystalline Silica Dust Information Sheet
Crystalline silica is widely found in nature. Occupational exposure to crystalline silica dust occurs in many industries.
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2017
Identifying Significant Hazards in Quarries - Information Sheet
Any hazard or potential hazard should be considered significant or potentially significant if such a failure would directly or indirectly, be liable to endanger premises, roadways or other places where people are likely to be found offsite; or likely to cause serious or fatal injuries to persons on or off-site.
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2017
Guarding of Return Idler Rollers on Conveyors at Quarries - Information Sheet
Idlers are an important component in any conveyor system as they are used to support the conveyor belt and the load carried on the belt.
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2017
Fall Protection at the Top of the Quarry Face - Information Sheet
The operator needs to consider any activities that take place at the top of quarry faces and this would include inadvertent and unauthorised access, face profiling and surveying activities, drilling operations and shotfiring operations.
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2017
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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2017
Mobile Elevated Work Platforms
This guidance document has been prepared to assist those working with Mobile Elevated Work Platforms (MEWPs). It offers guidance on Static Vertical, Static Boom, Mobile Vertical and Mobile Booms.
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2017
Guidance for the Management of Household Hazardous Waste at Civic Amenity Sites
This joint guidance developed by the EPA in conjunction with the Authority addresses the safe handling and storage of a range of household hazardous waste types at civic amenity sites in order to manage not only the environmental risks but also health and safety risks.
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2017
Work Related Vehicle Safety Program Plan and Priorities for 2016-2018
The HSA has developed a new three year plan outlining a course of action, aimed at influencing and improving work related vehicle safety in Ireland.