Residents near the Houghton Quarry landfill in Sunderland will be pleased to hear that action has finally been taken against the waste disposal company responsible for the persistent odours emittin...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging employers to assess the risks to their employees from exposure to vibration, after a Hampshire Company was fined a total of £...
Two businesses have been fined a total of almost £30,000 after hazardous waste residue was left in storage drums sent to a scrap yard.
Teesside Magistrates’ Court heard contaminated drums we...
The Environment Agency believes that the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) and Energy Efficiency Scheme could "spell the end for all-night lights and...
A construction company from Harrow has been fined £8,000 and forced to pay costs of £14,760 after poorly secured cladding seriously injured a pensioner.
Brendan Flynn Construction Limited wa...
A construction company, John Graham (Dromore) Limited, has been fined a total of £50,000 at Antrim Crown Court after breaching health and safety regulations.
A South Yorkshire firm, 4Ls Products Ltd, has been fined £15,000 after breaching the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
It was prosecuted following an incident i...
The BBC announced this week that its infamous television centre, located in Shepherds Bush, has been put up for sale. After more than 50 years of broadcasting from the site, the BBC is moving its o...
In support of the Conservatives' promise to restore weekly household-waste collections, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles declared last year, "It's a basic right of every English man to be able to...
As Andy Murray embarked on yet another year of Wimbledon dreams, a rally of insults was taking place off the court, between chair of the Health and Safety Executive, Judith...
The World's oceans are in a greater decline than once thought according to a report of an expert panel of scientists brought together by the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO)...
A crime boss who ran an illegal waste site has been jailed for four years, within a day of being released from prison for firearm offences.
Hugh O'Donnell laundered millions of pounds in pro...
Official statistics published this month show an increase in the number of people killed at work last year. Provisional data released by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE...
Employment Minister Chris Grayling visited Brussels this month to attend a meeting on the Pregnant Workers Directive.
At the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (E...
Newcastle's bid to harness the natural heat of underground water has reached a significant stage this week. Following four months of drilling on a former brewery site - the same brewery which produ...
