Mistras ETS Ltd, which provides industrial radiography equipment, has been fined £30,000 and ordered to pay £4,930 in costs after one of its employees suffered radiation burns when working in a rad...
A report compiled by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned that the impacts of global warming are likely to be "severe, pervasive and irreversible". These impacts include...
Employers in GB have a requirement under the Health and Safety Information for Employees Regulations SI 1989/682, and in Northern Ireland under the Health and Safety Informa...
A leading manufacturer of high-quality, high performance self-adhesive label materials for product and information labelling has improved H&S and environmental compliance after turning to online sp...
53 retailers, suppliers, charities and recyclers in the clothing sector, including Tesco, Sainsbury's, Marks and Spencer, Next, Stella McCartney and John Lewis, have committed to reducing the envir...
Thomas Bolton Ltd, a company making copper products for the power industry, has been fined £19,050 and ordered to pay £10,361 in costs after pleading guilty to breaches of the Management of Health...
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...
