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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In response to the European Commission's reasoned opinion on the under implementation by the UK of Directive 83/477/EEC, on the p...
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...
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...
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...
After five years of handing out biodegradable carrier bags, independent Government scientific research has revealed that Tesco could be doing more harm than good by using 'eco-friendly' carrier bag...
A safety pressure group has declared the new Westfield Stratford City shopping centre in east London a disaster, after a third safety incident in a week took place during the venue's high-profile o...
A Perth-based maintenance contractor has been fined a total of £155,000 after a man drowned when he fell into a water filled sump at a North Wales power station.
Michael Benn, 37, from Fife...
A catering equipment firm has been fined £20,000 after repairs it carried out at a Milton Keynes chip shop led to the owner receiving an electric shock. Magistrates heard that the man suffered bur...
Northern Ireland Environment Minister Edwin Poots visited the Six Mile Water River last month to view an ongoing pollution prevention programme championed by the Northern Irelan...
