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Author: Bianca Odron

Exertis Ireland won the Safety Culture Transformation Award at the Health & Safety Excellence Awards 2026, recognised for empowering employees to take shared ownership of safety and embedding it as an everyday behaviour across the business. By embedding accessible reporting, leadership engagement and proactive behaviours into everyday operations, Exertis Ireland demonstrated how lasting safety improvements can be achieved through cultural change rather than compliance alone.

Author: Bianca Odron

Working in heatwave Ireland carries real legal and operational consequences for employers, as Met Éireann forecasts 31C and Irish law leaves a critical gap where a maximum workplace temperature should be.

Author: Bianca Odron

New approaches combining AI support, HAZOP methodologies and immersive training technologies are being explored to help industrial organisations strengthen hazard identification, improve workforce preparedness and enhance communication around operational and process safety risks.

Author: Bianca Odron

West Virginia is investing in expanded worksite health services to improve preventive care access, support chronic condition management and strengthen workforce resilience through employer-based healthcare models focused on employee wellbeing and operational continuity.

Author: Bianca Odron

Stormont’s roof remediation programme is progressing into a second phase focused on managing water ingress, structural deterioration and long-term building safety as investigations continue to support asset resilience and protect building occupants.

Author: Bianca Odron

OSHA will deliver a three-day virtual training programme for US federal agencies focused on hazard prevention, inspection readiness and workplace protection as organisations continue strengthening safety practices across evolving operational and environmental risks.

Author: Bianca Odron

Healthcare unions are urging additional workplace guidance during Ireland’s heatwave as concerns increase around staff wellbeing, ventilation, employee safety and maintaining resilient healthcare environments during periods of elevated temperatures and changing climate conditions.

Author: Bianca Odron

Looking back at the Health & Safety Excellence Awards 2026, Safe Events Global's win in the Tourism & Entertainment category recognised nine years of dedicated health and safety leadership behind Wild Lights at Dublin Zoo. The award highlights the team's expertise in managing complex operational risks across a live zoological environment, balancing visitor safety, event infrastructure and animal welfare while helping maintain one of Dublin's most popular seasonal attractions through long-term partnership and consistent safety standards.

Author: Bianca Odron

A new EcoOnline-J.S. Held alliance targets fragmented safety systems just as Ireland's workplace fatalities rose 61% in 2025, exposing how disconnected EHS processes leave employers dangerously exposed to preventable risk.

Author: Bianca Odron

CameraMatics has secured €49m to expand its AI-powered fleet safety platform and accelerate product development. The investment highlights growing demand for technologies that improve driver safety and reduce operational risk.