A world famous jam-maker has been fined a total of £6,870 after a worker's finger was sliced off by a marmalade machine. Snezana Pavlenkova was trying to unblock an orange peel shredder at Wilkin...
An Armagh company, Coyle Fabrications Ltd, has been fined £15,000 plus £1,026 costs after an employee was fatally injured.
The equivalent of £1,250 per day has been paid out by the Northern Ireland Civil Service over the last five years in relation to workplace injuries. A BBC report has revealed a total of £2.3 milli...
A judge has this month warned that the courts would not tolerate firms breaching health and safety rules after Tulip Limited was forced to pay more than £286,000 in fines and costs after incidents...
Two railway maintenance companies have each been fined £240,000 after admitting offences under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, following the fatal crushing of a...
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...
