Employers and employees are being urged to take workplace safety seriously.
Today is International Workers' Memorial Day, which remembers those who have been killed or seriously injured in work-related incidents.
In Ireland, 481 people were killed in work-related incidents over a ten-year period to 2021, seventy-seven of those were in Cork.
Speaking to RedFM News, the CEO of the Health and Safety Authority, Dr. Sharon McGuinness says that 7 people have been killed in work-related incidents so far this year.
"Already in this year we've already has 7 fatalities, so it's a fact that it happens all the time.
"Not only are we commemorating those and remembering those that we lost in workplace fatalities over the last number of years, we're also using the day to get people to stop and think, and urging those employers and employees to sit down and talk about health and safety in the work place, making sure that people take it seriously, because as we know the worst consequence of an incident is somebody's death."
