The InjuriesBoard has just unwittingly warned 605 DePuy hip victims that their claims are at risk
Every six months or so, the Injuries Board issues a press release.
Accidents at Work: the Safety System (5)
An estimated 3.4 million workers were treated in emergency departments in 2004 (the most recent data available) because of occupational injuries, and approximately 80,000 were hospitalized
Accidents at Work: the Safety System (4)
EU-OSHA The European Agency for Health and Safety at Work The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) is an element of the European Union. Its purpose is that of an integrating and educational authority on questions of occupational
Accidents at Work: The Safety System (3)
Having so ratified these conventions, Ireland is, under international law, bound to observe their terms and where required, take positive steps to implement them.
Accidents at Work: the Safety System (2)
The organisation runs courses and seminars on safety and health at work and has a library of booklets, leaflets and posters.
Accidents at Work: the Safety System (1)
It is charged with developing safety training for everyone concerned with work in Ireland.
Accidents at Work: the statistics
In 2010, there were 79,287 cases of occupational injury or illness.
Accidents at Work: the diagnosis
It has been known for a very long time that some occupations imply risk and cause injury to workers.
Information on Injuries at Work
Some of this may be attributable to the imperfections in medical knowledge but mostly it is a failure to think with clarity.
Injuries at Work and Social Class
What does not go out of date is an underlying feature of employment; the incidence of injury in work and its relationship with occupation and, therefore, social class.
Holiday Injuries; is it a Package Holiday?
That means that injuries from food poisoning, or road accidents caused by the negligence of drivers or mechanics are all suitable to be litigated under the 1995 Act, conditional on those services causing the injury being part of the “obligations under the contract”.