Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Conor O'Brien:

Bullying can have a devastating impact on individuals and their families and colleagues. It is a terrible thing and employers need to be very conscious of it with their workforce. We have done a lot of work in this area and, as Dr. Duff mentioned, we are getting a lot of interest in it. When we run a webinar, for instance, on psychosocial safety, hundreds of people attend who are very interested in how to address bullying. We are seeing an increasing level of awareness of the issue.

It is kind of an area that in the past people did not want to deal with or did not know how to deal with.