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Fake plastic trees

Shoppers stared in bemusement as a mysterious giant cone-shaped object, covered in "green doormats", was erected in a Poole shopping precinct. Locals described it as a giant traffic cone, a witch’...

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There's something in the woodshed. Again...

Inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland, and the 26 District Councils have begun an enforcement initiative, in order to ensure compliance with h...

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Landfill Tax increase

The standard rate of Landfill Tax increased from £40 per tonne to £48 per tonne, on 1 April 2010.

The Government announced several years ago that it intended to keep raising the rate of Land...

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To 2020... and beyond!

Northern Ireland Health and Safety Minister Arlene Foster has warned against complacency in the wake of good news with the lowest recorded number of deaths at work in decades. Seven people lost the...

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Making sense of 'common sense' health and safety reforms...

The outcome of Lord Young’s health and safety review may not be the ‘bonfire of the regulations’ that many anticipated, but it could still herald major changes to the way health and safety is deliv...

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Company found guilty of corporate manslaughter

Cotswold Geotechnical (Holdings) has been fined £385,000 over the death of a junior geologist. The fine is the first of its kind under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate H...

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HSE NI scheme isn't just hot air

It has been announced that Northern Ireland's gas installer registration scheme will be operated by the Gas Safe Register from 1 April 2010. News of the Health and Safety Execu...

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Who'll fall for falling NI greenhouse gas emissions?

An annual report on behalf of the devolved administration in Northern Ireland states greenhouse gas emissions in the country have fallen by 13% since 1990.

AEA Technology's "Greenhouse Gas I...

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Water charge deferral to dry up?

Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy has this month refused to rule water charges in or out. His comments come after the Finance Minister Sammy Wilson conceded the Executive will have to re-e...

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Latest safety stats released

New figures published this month have revealed that the trend for falls in the number of people injured and made unwell at work in Britain has continued.

Health and Safet...

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Safety fine for fatal accident

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have this month highlighted that everyone involved in the planning and carrying out of contruction work has some responsibility for ens...

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M&S foot the bill

Marks and Spencer has been fined a total £31,113 after a worker lost part of their toe in a warehouse incident. Milton Keynes Magistrates' Court heard that Timothy Payne was using a goods-only sci...

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Insuring workers proves to be a big chore

Managers of a Chorley pub have been each fined £1,200 and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £2,620 after failing to buy insurance to protect their employees.

The court heard how Stephen an...

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Fuelish builder receives Community Order

A self-employed Lockerbie builder has been given a Community Service Order after he carried out unsafe gas installation work at a house near Dumfries. Kevin Graham was carrying out general building...

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Fine for farming firm

CW Dobbs and Son Ltd, a farming company in Lincolnshire, has been fined after a worker broke his leg when he was hit by a forklift truck. Algis Jevsejevas was walking through a potato grading shed...

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