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GMIT staff are producing and delivering vital equipment and PPE materials for health care workers in hospitals, pharmacies, GP surgeries, and care settings across the west, in the race to stop the spread of Covid-19.

GMIT staff are producing and delivering vital equipment and PPE materials for health care workers in hospitals, pharmacies, GP surgeries, and care settings across the west, in the race to stop the spread of Covid-19.

GMIT staff are producing and delivering vital equipment and PPE materials for health care workers in hospitals, pharmacies, GP surgeries, and care settings across the west, in the race to stop the spread of Covid-19.

Western Management Centre provides training in Safe Pass, fire and chemical handling, plus many other key health and safety courses. Some of these courses are mandatory training courses.

In order to work in any type of building or construction site you must have a Safe Pass card. This card is mandatory for many jobs involving maintenance, building, painting, landscaping, etc.

In order to work in some areas of industry employees must have specific qualifications. Western Management Centre offers a range of key health and safety courses that are mandatory for anyone wanting to work in a factory, nursing home, building site, warehouse, or as a special needs assistant (SNA).

Inspectors from the Health and Safety Authority are carrying out spot checks on Galway farms this month in a bid to reduce the number of accidents causing injury and death.

A number of Mayo companies picked up awards at the All Ireland Occupational Safety Awards in Mullingar recently. Mairead McGuinness, Fine Gael MEP and vice president of the European Parliament, presented the awards. She said the awards mark the achievement of people who day-to-day carry out what are in many ways mundane tasks in detecting risks, training personnel, enforcing and monitoring good practices, and inculcating rather than dictating a safety ethos in the workplace.

A Galway farmer who lost a limb in a farm accident will address a series of a seminars on farm health and safety at agricultural and horticultural colleges throughout the country in the next two months.

Ireland’s four-year budget plan could put the safety and wellbeing of workers at risk as managers look to cut costs, Ireland’s leading professional health and safety body has warned.