Health and Safety Executive (HSE) construction inspectors are carrying out an intensive inspection initiative during February and March 2013.
This will focus on the...
Elland Steel Structures Ltd of Halifax have been fined £8,000 and ordered to pay £20,000 toward costs as a result of a serious accident at their factory in January 2011.
Bradford Crown cour...
A textile firm in Wakefield, West Yorkshire has been fined £100,000 and ordered to pay £15,000 in costs after one of its workers was killed by a falling stack of bales.
James We...
Muldoon Bros LLP have been fined £10,000 plus costs of £1,400 at Omagh Crown Court, after pleading guilty to three breaches of health and safety legislation.
The case arose from an incident...
The owner of premium drinks like Johnnie Walker, Baileys, Captain Morgan and Guinness has made the switch to using 100% of its electricity from renewables at its Norwalk headquarters in the US.
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As a consequence of an accident in 2011 which involved a worker falling more than three metres from a ride he was fixing, Merlin Attractions Operations Ltd, operators of Legoland in Berkshire, have...
In addition to the standard rules already established by the Environment Agency, new rules have been published which operators must comply with in order to operate a waste i...
The 5p charge on single-use bags has been implemented in Wales and Northern Ireland in order to encourage shoppers to re-use bags to reduce the strain on the environment. Scotland is also consideri...
The Scottish Government have announced plans to install charging points throughout the Scottish road network in an attempt to cut vehicle emissions.
The scheme will see charging points inst...
Health and Safety is often cited as the reason for stopping acceptable events simply because it is a convenient tag-line. However, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is f...
A Freedom of Information (FoI) request has revealed that in the three months in which the Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) Fee for Intervention (FFI) Scheme has been in f...
Steel manufacturer Tata Steel and a specialist contractor have been fined a total of £320,000 for safety failings after a worker was killed by a falling metal bar in Redcar.
Kristian Lee No...
A Dorset contractor has been fined for safety failings after a lorry driver suffered a serious hand injury while using unsafe wheel cleaning equipment on a construction site.
The driver los...
Postal staff working in Cheltenham have been banned from wearing shorts on health and safety grounds. It was feared that postal staff who wear shorts in bad weather might get frost-bite, chapped sk...
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI) has sent out a reminder that there is still time for trades people to sign up for free asbestos awareness train...
