The Environment Agency has announced a further exemption from the handling of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), which will be provided through the environmen...
This year the UK will have to collect four times the number of portable batteries it collected in 2009 for recycling, if it is to meet the first interim target set by the Waste Batteries and Accumu...
On 19 March 2010, Fermanagh District Council was fined a total of £45,000 after pleading guilty to two breaches of health and safety legislation.
The case against the council was brou...
Reports suggest the cost of working days lost to mental ill health in Northern Ireland could be as much as £125 million a year. Taking steps to tackle work related stress and promote mental well...
Ventilation problems at an electrical equipment recycling plant, which exposed workers to toxic mercury and lead, have led to fines of £145,000 for a recycling firm and its director.
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The theft of 2 million carbon allowances worth an estimated €30 million is now the fourth major attack on the European carbon emissions trading system, which has also been the subject of threats fr...
A recent prosecution by the Environment Agency has highlighted the seriousness being attached to breaches of legislation implementing the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equ...
A German-based construction company has been fined £226,000 after one of its workers was crushed to death in September 2008.
Czech national, Ondrej Hladik, 46, was contracted to work on the...
Environment Minister Edwin Poots has claimed that householders could save hundreds of pounds by taking small steps to reduce, reuse and recycle more.
This could involve simply making a shopp...
A man died after a splinter penetrated his eye socket and brain during the filming of an historical re-enactment.
The accident happened during a jousting event to be used in a Channel 4 arc...
A construction worker had a lucky escape when the forklift truck he was driving toppled over and crashed onto beach huts on Lyme Regis seafront.
The worker was unloading materials when the...
A brewery has been ordered to pay £27,481 in fines and costs after breaching fire safety legislation following a prosecution by the London Fire Brigade.
Punch Taverns PLC pleaded guilty to s...
Health and safety consultants are being invited to sign up to a new independent register, which is intended to become a new benchmark for standards in the profession.
The Occupational Safety...
Anglian Water has been fined £35,000 and ordered to pay full costs of over £7,000 after a sewage treatment works discharged sewage into the River Wid in Essex for more than three hours, killing hun...
The HSE and the HSE NI have co-operated to bring a safety alert to the attention of users of scissor lifts.
Users of certain types of scissor...
