Health & Safety
Workers
I have written consistently in this website of the hazards of work. Those hazards are very old. The excavations of Pompeii revealed the skeleton of a sixteen year old boy whose upper torso was excessively developed from physical work in fishing and whose teeth on the right side of his mouth were worn down to nothing by gripping the lines used to catch the fish. (From âPompeii,:The Living Cityâ?, [2005] Butterworth & Laurence, Weidenfeld & Nicholson p. 240) In Ireland, […]
Patient Mishaps
What this means is that 24,382 patients received the wrong treatment.
Irredentist PIAB
What are the problems (statutorily enforced) that the Government has imposed on such plaintiffs?
Personal Injury – The Health Industry
Nurses as a group have a considerable level of complaint of low back pain, a sure sign of injury from excessive lifting.
Personal Injury – Fishing Industry
For Employers’ duties see HERE Fishermen are engaged in one of the most dangerous occupations of any group. On United Kingdom figures, their occupational mortality is exceeded only by mine workers at the coalface. Generally, they are twice as likely to die in the course of their work as a person working on land. Put another way, again on United Kingdom figures, fishermen have an annual risk of 1 in 500 of being killed in the course of their work. […]
Calculated
If, in the light of the above, a patient contracts an MRSA infection, is it not clear, subject to rebuttal evidence, that the hospital has failed to protect the patient?
MRSA Conference
The MRSA & Families Network have organised a conference entitled, âMRSA: What is it costing us?â? to be held on 19TH JUNE 2007 at the Emmett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin, from 9.30 am to 4.40 pm.
PIAB and Personal Injuries
1. In Ireland, to suffer an injury in a road traffic accident is to be at the beginning of a painful (in every sense), long, and tiresome process. 2. Since the establishment of the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (âPIABâ?) in 2003, it is no longer lawful, with some exceptions, for an injured person (âapplicantâ?) to promptly and of course, seek compensation for such injuries in court. 3. Under the Personal Injuries Assessment Board Act 2003 such applicants are obliged, if […]
Personal Injury – Construction Industry
Over the previous10 years more than 70 people were killed and 5,000 seriously injured on Irish building sites.
Personal Injury – Cancer
A disturbing pattern of deaths in laboratory workers at Teagasc was revealed in 1989 in an epidemiological report prepared for the organisation three years before.