What do we foresee as being the Health & Safety risks post
lockdown?
Regulatory Enforcement
Under the Health and Safety and Welfare Work Act 2005,
employers continue to have a duty to ensure, so far as is
reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of
their employees, in addition to the health and safety of
individuals not within their direct employment but those whom might
be effected by their activities.
The Health and Safety Authority ("HSA") has published
guidance for employers on minimizing health and safety risks
throughout the pandemic. The immediate approach of the HSA has
focused on issuing advice and guidance with a series of announced
and unannounced inspections of work places taking place to ensure
that the Government's Return to Work Safely Protocol is being
adhered to. In our view, less serious failures of adhering to the
protocol are more likely to be dealt with by way of advice and
guidance, however, where employers are
