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Safety pram ban

A Sure Start centre in Darlington has apparently banned parents from taking prams into the centre on the grounds of health and safety, requiring, instead, that the prams are left outside. Following...

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Cedrec Consultant goes Green!

Impressive news from Cedrec Towers this week.

Our Senior Consultant, Richard Clarke, has been selected as a candidate for the Green Party for the upcoming local elections on 7 May.

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Boldly going where no solar plane has gone before

Pilots Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard have started a record-breaking attempt to fly around the world in a plane powered entirely by solar power in five months.

Solar Impulse-2 is a s...

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The Offshore Directive

Following the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, the European Commission (EC) launched its communication "Facing the challenge of the safety of...

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Company prosecuted after off-shore worker killed

Bilfinger Salamis UK Limited, Suffolk was given a fine of £100,000 for breaching the Work at Height Regulations SI 2005/735, after the death of 37 year old employee, L...

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16,000 unexplained cracks in Belgian nuclear reactors

Two Belgian nuclear reactors are covered in cracks totalling over 16,000. The discovery has led to Jan Bens, Director-General of the Belgian nuclear regulator the Federal Agency for Nuclear C...

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That's the power of pee

On the University of the West of England's campus in Bristol stands a curious structure. It is in fact a revolutionary urinal which uses urine to generate electricity and all staff and student...

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Publication on changing Arctic condemns lack of UK contribution

A report from the House of Lords Select Committee on the Arctic has produced a publication on “Responding to a changing Arctic”.

The publication outlines changes occurring in the arctic and...

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Shock Cineworld Health and Safety Breach

Cineworld, the cinema giant, have been ordered to pay more than £12 000 after two of their workers received electric shocks from a popcorn warmer.

On 4 December 2013, a worker received a sh...

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UK leading the way in tidal lagoons

The UK is planning to generate renewable energy from the world's very first tidal lagoons, four of which will be in Wales and one each in Somerset and Cumbria.

A scheme in Swansea, wor...

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Failed lift injures worker

Tweddle Fabrications Ltd, an engineering firm based in Cumbria, has been fined £12,000 and ordered to pay £501 in costs after pleading guilty to a breach of the Lifting Operations and L...

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HSE NI concern over slurry mixing

The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI) has recently interviewed 100 farmers on entering buildings where slurry is being mixed. The survey revealed tha...

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World's biggest wind farm approved

Energy Secretary Ed Davey has given consent for the world's biggest offshore wind project off the coast of East Yorkshire.

The Dogger Bank Creyke Beck offshore wind farm will comprise...

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New ISO 14001 on track

The new, revised version of ISO 14001 is still on track for publication in September following a meeting of the group working on the revision.

The meeting, which took place in Tokyo, began...

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Building firm plead guilty to corporate manslaughter

A building firm and its owner were sentenced on 3 February as a result of a man’s death.

The man died after falling through a skylight on a roof he was working on at the time. Jason Penning...

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