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Safety compliance fine for building firm

A building maintenance firm has been fined £65,000 and ordered to pay costs of £8,162 after one of its employees had their leg crushed by a cherry picker at a nuclear site in Cumbria.</...

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HSE in live 'Fee For Intervention' Twitter chat

On Thursday 18 October, the Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) Director of Special Projects, Gordon MacDonald, will take to Twitter in order to answer your questions on the...

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See Cedrec at the SHE Show!

Cedrec are delighted to announce that we will be attending the SHE Show North East, which will take place at the Newcastle Marriott Hotel Gosforth Park, on 20 November 2012.

We attended the...

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Large fine following fall

A construction firm from Bangor, Gwynedd, has been fined £450,000 and ordered to pay £98,000 in costs after a young worker fell from height in 2007. Thomas Whitmarsh suffered major head...

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It's a minefield to keep Cedrec's waters clean

A pumping station to be built at a former colliery in Sunderland has been labelled as a "quick-fix remedy" by an environmental campaigner.

The Coal Authority wants to build a pumping statio...

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Liquid air offers ripple of hope

Engineers have often been challenged as to how we might store energy. However, they may have come up with an effective solution - liquid air.

The Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)...

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R&R fined

R&R Ice Cream Ltd, an ice cream manufacturer in Leeming Bar, Yorkshire, has been successfully prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after one of its workers br...

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OMG! OM Recycling fined

A County Down tyre recycling business, OM Recycling Ltd, has this week been subject to a £120,000 confiscation order under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 at Newry Crown Court, in relation to a seri...

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Northern Ireland launch NVIR-O-CERT

A ground breaking initiative designed to improve the environmental performance of the construction industry in Northern Ireland was launched this week by Environment Minister Alex Attwood.

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Lookin' back on the track for a little green bag

Wales have already implemented it, Northern Ireland will be implementing it next year, Scotland are consulting on it, and now it seems that many in England would favour a 5p charge for each single-...

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Sensible risk management

Health and safety law is often used as an excuse to ban or prohibit certain activities, none more so than activities involving children.

Many provocative headlines have been produced reinfo...

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Quavers waste not floaty light

The snack that purports to be light and curly has caused a worker to break his leg when a 400 kilogramme block of compacted Quavers waste fell on them.

Lincoln Magistrates' Court was told t...

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Company scrambled by egg-traordinary fine

One of the largest egg producers in the UK has been ordered to pay £65,000, as well as costs of £9,500, for operating five sites across England without the required environmental permits.

L...

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Badger appeal fails

The Badger Trust, which launched an appeal against Government proposals to kill thousands of wild badgers in England, has lost its court battle. Badger culling was proposed in order to eradicate th...

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Greenest Pope in history

The green credentials of Pope Benedict XVI were increased yet again when he received an electric car to use within the grounds of the Vatican and his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo.

Fr...

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