Union releases ‘conservative’ figures to coincide with Workers’ Memorial Day which was marked by event at Garden of Remembrance
From left; Deirdre Byrne, Marian Deasy, and Jillian Brennan, attending the Worker’s Memorial Day, a day dedicated to remembering workers who have lost their lives, been injured or contracted illnesses at or because of work. Held in the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times
The event, at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square was attended by representatives of employers groups and trade unions as well as politicians. “Far too many nurses and midwives are assaulted in the workplace, over 4,106 nurses were verbally, physically or sexually assaulted in their workplace last year. We know that this is a conservative figure as many nurses and midwives do not report these incidents, nor indeed do their employers.”
Advisory committees already exist in the farming and construction sectors but they continue to drive the figures for workplace fatalities, typically accounting got almost half and nearly 20 per cent of deaths annually. He said the circumstances of the specific incident would be reviewed and that wider data on the impact of the legislation is still be compiled.
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