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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued plans to extend its current cost recovery system so an inspector will charge a fee for an inspection and any subsequent acti...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has challenged the construction industry in the UK to learn from the example of the construction of the London 2012 Olympic site in ord...
The union Unite has recently issued a safety rep alert around the current position with regards to the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations SI 1...
