The aviation industry has made a dramatic pledge to slash carbon dioxide emissions in half by 2050, in a move that could force up air fares and spark a green technology race among aircraft manufact...
A marquee manufacturing and hire company, Big Tops Ltd, has been prosecuted after it erected a wedding tent directly under a power line. The Nottingham-based company placed dozens of people at ris...
It has been suggested this month, that employers should carry out risk assessments for women working in high-heeled shoes because they create a health and safety hazard, according to a motion passe...
With only 30-or so days before leaders meet to agree on a post-Kyoto climate deal in Copenhagen, there is an urgent need for nations to speed up negotiations and make political choices.
As t...
It is understood that a depot near Londonderry where a fire burned for three days from Sunday 4 October, was storing tyres illegally. The site in Eglinton, which was sub-let, did not have the lice...
On 19 October 2009, Montgomery Transport Ltd. was fined a total of £75,000 after pleading guilty at Belfast Crown Court to two breaches of health and safety legislation.
The case was brought...
A cartoon character whose seemingly innocuous adventures has this month fallen foul of health and safety fears after parents complained that the five-year old animated figure was seen travelling in...
The Environment Agency has launched its fourth consultation concerning the standard rules which form part of the environmental permitting regime. This latest discussion sets...
The number of employees being killed or injured at work is at its lowest level since the inception of the modern health and safety system 35 years ago. The Health and Safety at...
In a speech to the Policy Exchange think tank, Conservative leader David Cameron called for an end to the UK's "over-the-top" health and safety culture. He said there were often noble intentions,...
A packaging firm has been fined £90,000 after two workers became engulfed in a fireball at their Cumbrian-based factory. Gordon Metcalf, 62, and another worker were about to clean debris from a dam...
Nicholls and Clarke Glass Ltd has been fined £11,200 with £3,977.40 costs after one of their employees was seriously injured when their arm was cut to the bone.
Ian Swain from Dunstable work...
An independent school near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, has been prosecuted after an employee fell from the loft of the swimming pool changing rooms to the ground below.
The incident occurred...
Two companies have been charged a total of £115,000 for breaches of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 after a worker was dragged through a 125mm gap by a machine, s...
One of Northern Ireland's biggest construction firms has been fined £60,000 after a sub-contractor was killed on one of its sites.
Martin McKay from Drumquin was working on a road project in...
