A scaffolding firm which erected two scaffolds outside of a department store on Oxford Street has been fined £10,000 after a catalogue of safety failings.
Workers employed by Darren B...
Research commissioned by wildlife and countryside groups including the National Trust and the RSPB has found that "fracking" - the controversial process of abstracting shale gas - could devastate w...
Panasonic has become the first company to pay a premium to their employees who relocate to China in order to compensate for the country's air pollution problems.
Typically, employees sent o...
The director of a road sweeping company has been fined for safety offences after a worker was killed.
Malcolm Hinton died in 2012 when a raised hopper for collecting dirt fell on top of him...
An independent scientific assessment of last year's pilot badger culls in Gloucestershire and Somerset has concluded that they were not effective.
The Government commissioned analysis found...
Four new man-made gases that are contributing to the depletion of the ozone layer have been identified by scientists, two of which are beginning to accumulate at a rate that is causing concern.
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Huntingdon Town Council has changed the rules and the venue of the Town's annual pancake race on health and safety grounds. One of the key changes in the race is that nobody is allowed to run! The...
Only four months after mandatory greenhouse-gas (GHG) emission reporting was introduced for large businesses, there are already concerns over whether it should be scrapped.
After examining...
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI) is addressing the problem of farm-based accidents and fatalities by reminding farmers and contractors of their...
A village in Blanefield, East Stirlingshire, has been given help from the UK Government to pay £600,000 in contaminated land clean-up costs.
The residents were given the enormous bill after...
Interpol has claimed that organised crime networks are beginning to move into the illegal wildlife trade. Davyth Stewart from Interpol said, "We have seen more and more organised crime networks mov...
A construction worker was seriously injured after safety failings by his employer led to cast iron guttering falling on top of him.
Valentin Taljan, 61, broke his right arm, seven ribs, a v...
New legislation for the control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances (Seveso III) will come into force from the start of June 2015. But a proposed HSE amendment to this could...
Essex residents had thought their boy-racer worries were over when the council spent £5,000 to buy two CCTV cameras, only to find out they couldn't be installed due to health and safety requirement...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Forestry Commission have teamed up to offer a free health and safety awareness day in Staffordshire on 18 March 2014. The event...
