The flooring firm, Amtico, has been fined £75,000 after pleading guilty to breaching health and safety rules. Coventry Crown Court heard that at the time of the incident, there were no guards to s...
A haulage firm at the centre of an accident that led to a woman's death has been put out of business by the Traffic Commissioner. A 30-tonne digger rolled off a transport lorry and hit a car killi...
A two-year old boy has been killed in a farm accident involving a lorry in County Tyrone. He was playing outside his family home at Mullaghslin, Carrickmore, when the incident happened on the even...
Almost nine out of every 10 people fined in Belfast for breaking the smoking ban are commercial drivers, it has emerged this month. Van and taxi drivers and others who drive as part of their job a...
The Government plans to overhaul the landfill tax system and proposes to charge a higher rate of tax for some materials, which are currently considered inert and charged a lower rate of tax.
Five firms are being prosecuted following the Buncefield oil terminal explosion in December 2005. Total UK, Hertfordshire Oil Storage, British Pipeline Agency, TAV Engineering and Motherwell Contr...
The waste management company, Biffa, was fined £60,000 and ordered to pay £11,500 in costs last month, for breaching its Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC) permit. The Envi...
A haulier who sued environmental authorities over the detention of three lorries taking waste from Dublin to Belfast has been awarded £65,000. The High Court in Belfast ruled Patrick Laverty's veh...
The Northern Ireland Environment Agency's (NIEA) Environmental Crime Unit has confirmed that it is investigating the dumping of hundreds of tyres in the New Mossley estate....
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have revealed that the number of people killed at work has fallen to a record low. There were 180 deaths in the 12 months to March, do...
A TV advert which showed Welsh pop singer Duffy cycling through a supermarket has been cleared by an advertising watchdog after health and safety complaints. Eighteen viewers complained that the s...
Omagh based company PFG Plant Hire Ltd have been fined a total of £33,466 this month, after pleading guilty at Dungannon Crown Court to two breaches of health and safety legislation.
The cas...
The new environment minister Edwin Poots has said he will consider introducing a levy on plastic bags in shops in Northern Ireland. This follows news this month that the Welsh Assembly have announ...
Eight Premier League football clubs have told fans not to bring vuvuzelas to their games when the new season gets under way next month. The controversial horns provided the soundtrack to this summe...
Social networking website Facebook has angered at least 500,000 people with its intention to run a giant new data centre mainly on electricity produced by burning coal powder.
Facebook will...
