At the recent TUC conference in Liverpool, the Prime Minister Gordon Brown promised that laws to give temporary agency workers the same rights as full-time employees will be brought into effect wit...
A family Christmas without a tin of Cadbury Roses is almost as unthinkable as going without turkey, mince pies or crackers. But nothing, it seems, is sacred as the famous tins are to be ditched af...
Shoppers stared in bemusement as a mysterious giant cone-shaped object, covered in "green doormats", was erected in a Poole shopping precinct. Locals described it as a giant traffic cone, a witch’...
Inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland, and the 26 District Councils have begun an enforcement initiative, in order to ensure compliance with h...
The standard rate of Landfill Tax increased from £40 per tonne to £48 per tonne, on 1 April 2010.
The Government announced several years ago that it intended to keep raising the rate of Land...
Northern Ireland Health and Safety Minister Arlene Foster has warned against complacency in the wake of good news with the lowest recorded number of deaths at work in decades. Seven people lost the...
The outcome of Lord Young’s health and safety review may not be the ‘bonfire of the regulations’ that many anticipated, but it could still herald major changes to the way health and safety is deliv...
Cotswold Geotechnical (Holdings) has been fined £385,000 over the death of a junior geologist. The fine is the first of its kind under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate H...
It has been announced that Northern Ireland's gas installer registration scheme will be operated by the Gas Safe Register from 1 April 2010. News of the Health and Safety Execu...
An annual report on behalf of the devolved administration in Northern Ireland states greenhouse gas emissions in the country have fallen by 13% since 1990.
AEA Technology's "Greenhouse Gas I...
Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy has this month refused to rule water charges in or out. His comments come after the Finance Minister Sammy Wilson conceded the Executive will have to re-e...
New figures published this month have revealed that the trend for falls in the number of people injured and made unwell at work in Britain has continued.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have this month highlighted that everyone involved in the planning and carrying out of contruction work has some responsibility for ens...
Marks and Spencer has been fined a total £31,113 after a worker lost part of their toe in a warehouse incident. Milton Keynes Magistrates' Court heard that Timothy Payne was using a goods-only sci...
Managers of a Chorley pub have been each fined £1,200 and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £2,620 after failing to buy insurance to protect their employees.
The court heard how Stephen an...
