The construction industry is on track to have the lowest recorded workplace fatalities this year, with two recorded deaths in 2019. The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) reports 164 non-fatal workplace incidents in construction from January to June 2019. These statistics are declining year on year, with three fatalities and 278 non-fatal incidents recorded by [...]
CIF Launches Inaugural Health and Safety Summit The inaugural CIF Health & Safety Summit was held in Croke Park on Wednesday 28th November 2018 against the backdrop of expansion in construction activity, The Health and Safety Summit looked ahead to 2019 and beyond and featured speakers from multiple sectors discussing how the industry can manage challenges [...]
Recent retirees and women are being targeted for heavy plant machinery construction jobs as the building boom continues unabated. Industry experts say there is a crisis in recruitment for machine operators, with an estimated 1,500 vacancies in the sector. Brian Coogan, of the Construction and Quarry Machinery Show (CQMS), says technology has developed, so muscle [...]
The Irish construction industry is struggling to plan for Brexit and resultant delays in housing and infrastructure delivery over the next decade a survey carried out by PWC for the construction industry has found. The Construction Industry Federation and PwC Brexit Survey of the member base of Ireland’s construction industry on the state of readiness [...]
– Civil engineers, QS’s, construction project managers, and M&E engineers with BIM capabilities added to Critical Skills List – Sheet metal workers, welders, pipefitters, air-con and refrigeration engineers, shuttering carpenters, glaziers, window fabricators and fitters, scaffolders, stagers and riggers, and crane drivers removed from Ineligible List of Occupations – Plasterers subject to a quota of [...]
The CIF celebrated International Women’s Day (8th March) by hosting an event at the Morrison Hotel, Dublin, where it published results from a survey that showed marked changes in attitudes towards female construction workers. Survey results Results from a CIF survey of women working in the construction industry revealed that 85% of women currently working [...]