Health sector workers are most likely to be off due to work-related illness, it has emerged. It was blamed for the health sector losing 524 days per 1,000 workers between 2008 and 2014. The health sector had the highest number of days lost because of work-related injury during the 2008-14 period, at 92,000 days per year. The transport sector, with 82,000 days lost per year, over the same period had the second-highest number in the same timescale. However, the transport sector had the highest number of days lost per worker.

Source: Irish Examiner April 18, 2018 23:03 UTC