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Men are not Superheroes, I haven’t met one man that’s unbreakable

27th Sep 2018 Catherine Finn, Health and Safety Consultant at 4 Safety's Sake and all round 'Safety Lady' refers to superheroes on site.

3 Easy Steps to Engaging Management and Employees in your Safety Strategy

21st Aug 2018 One of the main problems experienced by safety professionals and supervisors is the trouble they have encouraging employees to “buy into” the importance of workplace safety. Initiafy's Conor McNally outlines how to engage others in your safety strategy.

Murphy International launch Mental Health Awareness Advocate Programme

9th Aug 2018 Murphy International Ltd. has launched a ‘Mental Health Awareness Advocate’ project in order to ‘spot, support and prevent’.

CIF & An Garda Síochána join forces to combat machine and tool theft with #SecureItKeepIt campaign

19th Jun 2018 An Garda Síochána along with The CIF are taking a proactive role in crime prevention in the Construction Industry which has historically has been targeted by criminals.

Health and Safety Authority begins intensive construction safety campaign

12th Jun 2018 The Health and Safety Authority yesterday began an inspection and awareness campaign targeting the construction sector.

The GDPR Jargon Buster

28th May 2018 Lorraine Valentine cuts through some of the jargon associated with the EU General Data Protection Regulation , which came into force last Friday, May 25th.

Remembering those injured or killed on Workers’ Memorial Day

25th Apr 2018 In Ireland from 2008 to 2017 there were 501 people killed due to work activity with many thousands more seriously injured.

Identifying Stress Overload – F.L. Safety Training

17th Apr 2018 Ahead of her CIF Webinar this Wednesday, Stress Response tutor, nurse and Managing Director of F.L. Safety Training, Florentine Loughney, outlines what you can do to identify stress overload in yourself and others.

CPD: The What, Why and How by Pauline Hall

9th Mar 2018 Pauline Hall worked as a lecturer, trainer and consultant with the Irish public service, and many international bodies. She is the author of several distance learning programmes on management development, and the co-author of a book Agents of Change. She was nominated by the Housing Agency to the...

Change for the Better

8th Feb 2018 Former Health & Safety Authority Assistant Chief Executive Brian Higgisson looks back on some of the changes he witnessed during almost two decades with the organisation.