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UK feels WEEE burn

The UK is apparently dumping its e-waste on Africa, with computers and other items shipped illegally to countries such as Nigeria and Ghana, according to reports. Despite regulations prohibiting i...

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Harry Potter and the Working at Height Regulations

The set of the new Harry Potter movie was closed this month, following a health and safety incident.

Leigh stuntman David Holmes was injured as he was working at height in an aerial sequence...

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There's gold in them thar hills! Next to the milky discharge...

Public representatives and local campaigners opposed to goldmining operations have reacted with anger to a pollution incident at the Creevan Burn close, near Omagh. The incident was caused by leaka...

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Regulations handled too literally?

Workers at the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have been banned from shifting furniture around their offices, in a move that has been criticised as "health and safety gone mad." Signs on the wall...

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Diagnosis, asbestos!

Despite almost £400,000 being allocated to the Western Health and Social Services Trust to resolve asbestos problems at hospitals and ancillary buildings in Omagh, it has been claimed this month th...

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That's a WRAP!

All construction projects in England costing more than £300,000 will soon need plans setting out how building materials and other waste products will be removed from the site. Under the Site Waste...

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FACK off-hand over HSE strategy

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published its finalised strategy for the health and safety system of Great Britain. The document sets 10 broad goals for improvements, including reinforci...

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Wham BAM!

Corby Magistrates' Court has demanded that construction company BAM pay a £28,540 penalty for traffic management failures that led to a forklift truck running over a subcontractor at a new £22.5 mi...

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Attwood announces clean waters

Environment Minister Alex Attwood has announced that all 24 of Northern Ireland's identified beaches passed the EC Bathing Waters Directive 76/160/EEC ma...

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Firms fined for poor safety on construction site

Two firms have been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for what they describe as 'appalling' standards on a building site in Wimbledon.

Bellway Devel...

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Agency sanctions first sanction

The Environment Agency has this month announced that it has used civil sanctions to enforce packaging waste legislation, by accepting its first enforcement undertaking from...

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Asbestos Regulations to be revised

In response to the European Commission's reasoned opinion on the under implementation by the UK of Directive 83/477/EEC, on the p...

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Windsor Castle applies the screws

The Royal family is getting ready to apply ancient technology to a medieval castle in order to find a solution to a modern problem. This week saw the delivery of two 40-tonne Archimedes' screws at...

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Cameron meddling again?

The Government could still move to amend the implementation of the Agency Workers Directive 2008/104/EC, according to reports published this month. The A...

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Global warming prevention balloons

A large helium balloon, 20 metres in length and attached to an 800 metre long hosepipe, will be raised 1 kilometre above Norfolk next month in order to test an innovative way of cooling the Earth d...

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