One man has died and six others have been injured in an explosion at Andrew Jones Pies factory in Huddersfield this month. Police said a total of seven employees were working in the building at th...
A Northern Ireland manufacturer, SDC Trailers, has been fined £5,900, after pleading guilty to health and safety breaches relating to unsecured lorry loads, contrary to the Heal...
An open farm which closed this month amid concerns over E.coli has now reopened. Five people who tested positive for the infection in recent weeks had visited, or had an association, with the Stre...
A £15m construction project to remake Banbridge Academy is being heralded as an example of best practice in health and safety in Northern Ireland.
John Graham (Dromore) Ltd is trialling a n...
The flooring firm, Amtico, has been fined £75,000 after pleading guilty to breaching health and safety rules. Coventry Crown Court heard that at the time of the incident, there were no guards to s...
A haulage firm at the centre of an accident that led to a woman's death has been put out of business by the Traffic Commissioner. A 30-tonne digger rolled off a transport lorry and hit a car killi...
A two-year old boy has been killed in a farm accident involving a lorry in County Tyrone. He was playing outside his family home at Mullaghslin, Carrickmore, when the incident happened on the even...
Almost nine out of every 10 people fined in Belfast for breaking the smoking ban are commercial drivers, it has emerged this month. Van and taxi drivers and others who drive as part of their job a...
The Government plans to overhaul the landfill tax system and proposes to charge a higher rate of tax for some materials, which are currently considered inert and charged a lower rate of tax.
Five firms are being prosecuted following the Buncefield oil terminal explosion in December 2005. Total UK, Hertfordshire Oil Storage, British Pipeline Agency, TAV Engineering and Motherwell Contr...
The waste management company, Biffa, was fined £60,000 and ordered to pay £11,500 in costs last month, for breaching its Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC) permit. The Envi...
A haulier who sued environmental authorities over the detention of three lorries taking waste from Dublin to Belfast has been awarded £65,000. The High Court in Belfast ruled Patrick Laverty's veh...
The Northern Ireland Environment Agency's (NIEA) Environmental Crime Unit has confirmed that it is investigating the dumping of hundreds of tyres in the New Mossley estate....
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have revealed that the number of people killed at work has fallen to a record low. There were 180 deaths in the 12 months to March, do...
A TV advert which showed Welsh pop singer Duffy cycling through a supermarket has been cleared by an advertising watchdog after health and safety complaints. Eighteen viewers complained that the s...
