RTÉ Investigates
Over a third of privately operated emergency homeless shelters in the capital had fire safety issues when they were inspected by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE).
A failure to update fire logs, to display emergency evacuation routes and to supply fire blankets and carbon monoxide alarms were all noted by inspectors from the DRHE.
These inspections, the reports of which have been made publicly available for the first time, were suspended a year ago due to Covid-19.
Other inspection regimes, such as those of nursing homes and direct provision centres, have continued during the pandemic.
RTÉ Investigates has also learned that just one in six of the DRHE inspections carried out in the year prior to that were subjected to the new National Quality Standards Framework (NQSF).
A renewed appreciation of the power of technology is one of Covid-19’s enduring on-trade symptoms according to Food Alert’s operations director Mike Williams.
Virtual communication has become the norm and, for most of us, our ‘screen time’ has increased enormously since March,” Williams says. “It has also enabled things that were once deemed impossible to be possible – from GPs running virtual patient appointments to teachers hosting online classes.”
He adds that hospitality compliance hasn’t been immune to this digitisation, with tech solutions likely here to stay even among operators who’d previously fallen back on excuses including being “too busy”, “too much hassle” and “this is how we’ve always done it” to thwart the virtual takeover.
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Sekondi-Takoradi: 14 arrested for open defecation LISTEN
FEB 26, 2021
Fourteen persons who decided to defecate openly in some drains and other places in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis have been apprehended during the act.
The Environmental Sanitation Taskforce of the assembly arrested the culprits on Friday, February 26, 2021.
The arrest was part of efforts by the Assembly to help reduce open defecation in the metropolis so as to ensure a clean and hygienic environment for the people.
Section 14 of the Assembly s bye-law on Solid and Liquid Waste Management, states “No person shall defecate or urinate in any public or open place other than in an approved toilet facility”.