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Watchdogs have issued a safety warning after seizing around 700 Christmas toys from town centre street sellers.
Trading standards officers in St Helens revealed the toys, which had a combine...
Professor Ragnar E Löfstedt's review into health and safety legislation has now been published.
Commissioned back in March 2011 by Employment Minister Chris Grayling, the review entitled, "R...
A Hampshire baker has been fined £500 and ordered to pay costs of £300 after being found guilty of breaching the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations SI 1998/2306...
Proposals by the Welsh Government to merge three separate environmental organisations into one Single Environmental Body (SEB) has received severe criticism from the forestry sector amid concerns t...
It has been announced that the results of the UK's biggest review of health and safety legislation in over a decade will be disclosed by the end of the month.
Professor Ragnar Löfsted, who i...
Pollution in a County Armagh lake has been blamed on a fuel laundering plant. A red diesel leak into Lowry's Lake, Hamiltonshawn, led Revenue and Customs officers to a nearby farm. Inspectors bel...
The Foyle Food Group Ltd, haulage contractor Ronald Baxter and farmer James Feeney have been fined a total of £10,000 plus costs, for a series of waste offences. The charges, which relate to vario...
Following on from our story last month on the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) campaign "sign up to sensible risks", which aims to combat the growing number of myths that a...
Tougher penalties for health and safety offences are being proposed in the Health and Safety (Offences) Bill.
The Labour MP who introduced the Bill, Keith Hill, said his aim was to, "Punish...
The Scottish Coal Company has been fined £400,000 after two workers were killed when their car was crushed by a 100-tonne dump truck. The incident happened at the Pennyvennie open-cast mine in Eas...
Two construction firms have been fined £38,000 after three workers narrowly escaped being crushed by a 35-tonne crane when it toppled over at a building construction site. The driver, who has not...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is set to unveil a new strategy for workplace health and safety in December, at the same time as calls are growing for a major overhaul...
An investigation is currently underway to establish the cause of a fire at a factory in Antrim.
The blaze started at lunchtime on Monday 22 September at the Camden Group Factory at the Cauls...
MEPs in the European Parliament have this month voted to make car manufacturers play a much greater role in tackling climate change, and rejected car industry attempts to we...
