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AN INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM
13th November 2008, Page 38
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It's not just in Britain that the rate of workplace fatalities is a problem. Concern over the number of deaths in the transport sector in Ireland prompted the Government to commission a study into the issue earlier this year.
The study, which is continuing, is looking into the nature and extent of hazards in the industry.
The Irish transport and storage sector has the third highest worker fatality rate in the country, behind construction and agriculture. Since 2003, Ireland has had 33 workplace deaths in the transport sector.
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA), the Irish equivalent of the UK's Health & Safety Executive (HSE), says most of those deaths involved 'drivers and mobile plant operators."