Just as reports of Costa Rica achieving 75 days of being powered by 100% renewable energy, New Zealand's Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment have released statistics which show tha...
Fantastic news on the zero carbon front!
Costa Rica have hit a record of 75 days, using power generated only through renewable sources.
The state is well-known for environmentally-f...
Very few people would believe that they could be flushing valuable metals down the drain every day, but that is exactly what most of us do according to new research. Precious metals are increasingl...
On 6 April 2015, the current ACOP on CDM 2007 (L144 - Managing health and safety in construction) will be withdrawn. It has long been assumed a replacement will be produced...
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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
