The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned companies that they face robust enforcement action following the prosecution of Everest Ltd, after its workers were found to...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned employers about the need to properly maintain machinery and provide adequate training after a company was fined a total of £...
The Environment Agency has announced that it is set to launch an online regulatory system, which will include environmental permitting.
The Agency...
Anyone intending to carry out a construction project in England costing more than £300,000 is now required by law to prepare a site waste management plan (SWMP).
The Site Waste Management Pl...
A scrap metal company, Baseforce Metals & Demo Ltd, has been ordered to pay more than £28,000 after it admitted keeping and treating waste without the necessary waste management licence.
The...
A water company has been fined a total of £40,211 at Reading Crown Court this month, after admitting polluting a nature reserve on the Hampshire Border. The Chase at Woolton Hill near Newbury, was...
Figures released this month have shown that 19 people died and around 3,500 were injured at work in Northern Ireland during 2006/07.
The statistics were revealed on International Workers' Me...
Next month will see the Build Safely Seminar 2008, which is part of the BuildSafe NI initiative. This is being held at the Silver Birch Hotel, Omagh, on Wednesday 2 July 2008 from 9:30am to 12:30p...
Agriculture Minister Michelle Gildernew has confirmed this month that tighter import controls are being implemented with immediate effect on Bluetongue susceptible animals.
Confirming the mo...
An ambitious new year recycling scheme by the Woodland Trust and Recycle Now aims to recycle Christmas cards and raise enough money to plant 24,000 trees.
Special collection bins will be ava...
Carol-singing Brownies and Guides have been banned from a shopping centre because they are considered to be a health and safety risk. The girls, age five to teenagers, have sung for pensioners and...
The European Commission has this month issued proposed revisions to Directive 2002/96/EC, on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), which will...
The UN climate summit has ended in Poznan, Poland, with delegates taking very different views on how much it has achieved. Western delegates said progress had been encouraging, although environmen...
A company which owns a long-established laundry in Fakenham was this month ordered to pay more than £20,000 in fines and costs after admitting breaking rules on abstracting water.
Sunlight S...
SDLP South Antrim MLA Thomas Burns has this month revealed that only one person has been jailed for water pollution offences in Northern Ireland in the past five years, despite more than 11,000 pol...
