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Breastfeeding at Work. Advice for Employers. LISA QUINN O'FLAHERTY Solicitor Fitzsimons Redmond The purpose of a Pregnant Employee (New & Expectant Mothers) Risk Assessment is to examine the work activities carried out by employees and determine the suitability of the activities with regard to pregnant employees while their body changes. When a mother returns to [...]

Covid-19 Protocols and the importance of Risk Assessments for Return to Work TONY MANGAN EHS Consultant EazySAFE A hazard is anything with the potential to cause harm in terms of human injury or ill health, such as work materials, equipment, work methods or practices, poor work design or exposure to harmful agents such as chemicals, [...]

Restriction Fatigue How We Can Promote Wellbeing Through the Hardest of Times. ALAN WHITE Wellness Consultant EazySAFE As we live through another six weeks of restrictions it’s difficult to imagine how we can promote wellbeing when the mood of the whole country is one of frustration and fatigue. More of us are being asked to [...]

Workplace air quality – A risk mitigating strategy for spread of airborne viruses DAVID CRUISE Marketing Manager Camfil On the 6th of July 2020, 239 leading scientists from over 32 different countries signed a research document to say that Covid-19 was an airborne virus. So what did this mean? Well, focussing on hand hygiene, social [...]

Emergency Evacuation Plan for Your Home – The Steps to Take in Order to be Prepared COLIN O'NEILL EHS Consultant EazySAFE One of the first questions I ask a group when I am delivering Fire Warden or Fire Safety Awareness Training is, “Who here has an emergency evacuation plan for their home?” Unfortunately, it is [...]

Health & Safety Priorities as 2020 Comes to an End GEMMA COLLINS DOYLE EHS Consultant EazySAFE “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe” – Abraham Lincoln I love this quote above! How apt it is, having no plan and not setting your priorities [...]

Quality of Life During COVID-19 GEMMA COLLINS DOYLE EHS Consultant EazySAFE I bet when we said farewell to 2019 and welcomed in 2020 last New Years Eve, we could not imagine the year we had ahead of us! Its true, we never know what the future holds, but I bet none of us thought we [...]

Staying Connected During the Pandemic. Why Our Close Relationships Are More Important Than Ever. ALAN WHITE Wellness Consultant EazySAFE The practical challenges of the COVID-19 crises has completely transformed how we live and work. Whether working remotely from home or back in the workplace, how we conduct our day to day business has radically changed [...]

Realism in a World of Toxic Positivity ALAN WHITE Wellness Consultant EazySAFE Toxic positivity is the idea that remaining positive and focusing only on the positive is how we should be living our lives. By focusing on the positive only we must therefore reject the negative and suppress any difficult emotions that we might feel. [...]

Dealing with a HSA Inspection GEMMA COLLINS DOYLE EHS CONSULTANT  EazySAFE Introduction Before we even get started into what to expect from a HSA inspection, lets take a look at who the HSA are and what they are all about.   The HSA The Health and Safety Authority was founded in 1989 and is the [...]