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...

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...