A stained glass company based in Lincolnshire has been fined £18,000 and ordered to pay costs of the same amount after one of its employees was found to have suffered from severe lead poisoning.

Bombardier Aerospace has been given the go-ahead to install five hectares of photovoltaic panels on the roof of their Belfast plant.

The panels, which will equate to the length of over six...

A global documents security company has been fined £5,000 after one of its employees fell from a stepladder at the company's UK site in Newham, damaging the radius bone in his left elbow.

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In September 2013, the Government announced that they were planning to introduce a 5p charge for single use carrier bags in England that would take effect after the next election in 2015. This is f...

The UK's leading centre of excellence for transport research, consultancy and product testing is improving the quality and reliability of its H&S and environmental management systems after bringing...

Safety failings at a recycling company in Redditch led to the death of a worker when a bale of paper waste weighing more than a tonne fell from a stack.

The accident happened in February 20...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a request for 2013 tonnage returns to be submitted to them before 31 March 2014. All duty holders under Regulation (EC)

In its annual report on sustainability and action on climate change, it was revealed that the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) failed to meet a third of its gre...

In September 2013, a fire broke out at a former brickworks site being used as a carpet recycling factory in Thrunton, Northumberland. Five months on, the fire is still blazing and local MP Sir Alan...

A lorry driver in Loranville, Larne has been fined £400 for the unauthorised disposal of waste tyres at a bonfire site in north Belfast.

An investigation by the Northern...

Thousands of rules affecting businesses are to be scrapped or amended, according to David Cameron.

Speaking at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) conference, the Prime Minister has su...

Cows are a notorious source of the dangerous greenhouse gas methane. It is thought that they each emit up to 500 litres of methane a day. However, one German farm has discovered that the emissions...

The largest independent whisky bottling plant in Scotland has been fined £12,000 after 5,000 litres of whisky was spilled into the River Ayr.

The spill, which was equivalent to a whopping 7...

Nineteen workers who were part of a team changing rail tracks in the Channel Tunnel have suffered carbon monoxide poisoning. One of the workers is in a serious condition.

A welder on the te...

Actor and comedian extraordinaire Ricky Gervais has used his celebrity status to support the opposition of a shark cull happening on the other side of the world, in Western Australia.

Using...