Safety violations at work

FORTY SIX cases of health and safety violations at the workplace went through the courts last year resulting in the imposition of penalties worth €141,700.

The Labour Inspection Department is the government office responsible for ensuring adherence to the relevant health and safety laws on natural or legal persons, violations of which constitute a criminal offence.

In 2010, the district courts tried 46 cases involving the violation of health and safety labour laws at the workplace, resulting in €141,700 worth of fines.

In two cases involving deaths at the workplace, four month and three month jail sentences were imposed on a three-year suspended sentence in both cases.

 

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