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Notes for employers The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act, 2005, and various Regulations made under the Act, place a duty on you to prepare a safety statement, based on an identification and assessment of hazards and risks at work. Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Pregnant Employees, etc.) Regulations, 2000 (S.I. No. 218 of 2000), set out the specific requirements for you on the health and safety of employees who are pregnant, have recently given birth or who are breast feeding. Regulation 4(d) of S.I. No. 218 of 2000 requires you to provide an employee with other work where you cannot take protective or preventative measures. Once you have established that the employee is exposed to a risk, you should take protective or preventative measures to remove the risk or offer other work during the leave period. If you are unable to remove the risk or find suitable alternative employment, the employee must be put on health and safety leave. You must pay the employee for the first 21 calendar days starting on the first day of the health and safety leave. If these 21 days are broken by a return to work, leave will start again (if granted later during the same pregnancy or breastfeeding period) on the day you grant the subsequent leave because of risk. The 21 days will be completed when the remaining 21 calendar days not previously taken have expired. Note Example: if start date of health and safety leave/payment by the employer is 1st Feb 2010, the last date of payment will be 21 calendar days later, i.e. 21st Feb 2010. The start date of payment by the Department will be 22nd February 2010.
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De réir an Achta um Shábháilteacht, Sláinte agus Leas ag an Obair, 2005 agus de réir Rialachán éagsúil a rinneadh faoin Acht tá de dhualgas ort ráiteas sábháilteachta a ullmhú a bhunaítear ar na guaiseacha agus na baoil a aithníodh ag an obair agus a bhfuil measúnú déanta orthu. Sna Rialachán um Shábháilteacht, Sláinte agus Leas ag an Obair (Fostaithe Torracha srl.), 2000 (I.R. Uimh. 218 de 2000), sonraítear na riachtanais shainiúla maidir leat féin i dtaobh sláinte agus sábháilteacht fostaithe atá ag iompar clainne, a rug leanbh le déanaí agus atá ag tabhairt cíche. De réir rialacháin 4(d) de I.R. Uimh. 218 de 2000 tá ort obair dhifriúil a thabhairt d’fhostaí mura féidir leat bearta a dhéanamh chun í a chosaint ó bhaol nó chun an baol di a chosc. A thúisce atá tú cinnte go bhfuil an fostaí nochta do bhaol ba chóir duit bearta a dhéanamh chun í a chosaint nó chun chun an baol di a chosc d’fhonn deireadh a chur leis an mbaol, é sin, nó obair dhifriúil a thairiscint di le linn na tréimhse saoire. Mura bhfuil ar do chumas deireadh a chur leis an mbaol nó obair dhifriúil atá oiriúnach di a aimsiú caithfidh tú saoire sláinte agus sábháilteachta a thabhairt don bhfostaí. Caithfidh tú pá a thabhairt don bhfostaí as an chéad 21 lá féilire ón gcéad lá den tsaoire sláinte agus sábháilteachta ar aghaidh. Má tá briseadh sa tréimhse 21 lá seo toisc go dtéann an fostaí ar ais ag obair, cuirfear tús leis an tsaoire arís (má dheonaítear níos déanaí í le linn an toirchis chéanna nó na tréimhse céanna ina dtugtar cíoch) ar an lá a ndeonaíonn tú an tsaoire dá éis seo de dheasca baol a bheith ann. Beidh an 21 lá istigh nuair a bheidh an chuid den 21 lá féilire nár tógadh roimhe caite. Nóta Mar shampla: más é an 1 Feabh. 2010 dáta tosaigh na saoire sláinte agus sábháilteachta/na híocaíochta ón bhfostóir, déanfar an íocaíocht dheiridh 21 lá féilire ina dhiaidh sin, is é sin, ar an 21 Feabh. 2010. Cuirfear tús le híocaíocht ón Roinn ar an 22 Feabhra 2010.