Dr. Adrienne Duff:

One of the main functions of the occupation health division is to focus on employee health over the duration of their working life and to certainly raise awareness with employers as to their duties with regard to occupational health hazards. These might include chemical, biological, psychosocial and ergonomic hazards. It is a multidisciplinary approach where we want employers to identify health hazards that may impact on employees over the course of their lifetimes, and certainly beyond their working life into retirement, and to mitigate acquiring an occupational health illness. Regarding the psychosocial space, we are very committed in our programme of work this year to raising awareness of psychosocial hazards and to dealing with psychosocial risks for employers. As Mr. O'Brien mentioned, we use a multi-regulatory approach and we are very much focused on the promotion space at the moment by raising awareness on psychosocial hazards and risks in the workplace through media advertising and hosting webinars-----