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...
It has been reported this month, that singer Lady Gaga demanded lambs and hundreds of butterflies on stage for her recent performance on the X Factor.
She astonished reality TV mogul Simon C...
The recent cold snap has no doubt led to plenty of queries regarding temperatures in the workplace.
The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations SI 1992/3004
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI) is facing a demand for loss of earnings from the contractor who cleared the Omagh bomb scene. An invoice for £...
James Hudson Demolition Ltd from Halifax has been fined £7,500 and ordered to pay costs of £20,000 after a worker suffered extensive injuries on a demolition site.
Gareth Dodds was working o...
It's been revealed that the Scottish body at the forefront of turning Scotland into a low-carbon economy is not in fact adhering to its own policies. After new monitoring software was installed on...
The operators of Grangemouth refinery have been fined £100,000 after an uncontrolled release of crude oil from a pipeline at the site on the Firth of Forth in May 2008.
This month the Government announced a number of proposed amendments to the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Order SI 2010/768, in a move which is likely to be welcomed by many p...
