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Numbers of health and safety convictions which resulted in a press releases*

Nos of court hearings resulting in conviction (of one or more defendant)**

Nos of  press releases resulting from convictions

% of convictions where the HSE published a press release

Nos of court hearings resulting in conviction (of one or more defendant) involving a death

Nos of press releases resulting from these convictions involving a death

% of hearings resulting in a conviction (involving a death) where the HSE published press release

Jan

39

9

23%

3

0

0%

Feb

43

14

33%

10

5

50%

Mar

59

20

34%

10

5

50%

Apr

36

12

33%

4

2

50%

May

34

10

29%

4

3

75%

Jun

53

18

34%

9

4

44%

Jul

36

10

28%

6

2

33%

Aug

25

7

28%

5

2

40%

Sept

55

22

40%

12

8

64%

Oct

42

14

33%

7

4

57%

Nov

56

18

32%

11

7

58%

Dec

24

13

54%

3

3

100%

TOT

502

167

33%

84

45

54%

* this is the number of cases resulting in a conviction. One case may involve a number of different defendents.

** these figures are taken from the HSE prosecution database. However, this database do not often link related cases correctly so some of the figures may be slightly inaccurate.