A self-employed Lockerbie builder has been given a Community Service Order after he carried out unsafe gas installation work at a house near Dumfries. Kevin Graham was carrying out general building...
CW Dobbs and Son Ltd, a farming company in Lincolnshire, has been fined after a worker broke his leg when he was hit by a forklift truck. Algis Jevsejevas was walking through a potato grading shed...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued plans to extend its current cost recovery system so an inspector will charge a fee for an inspection and any subsequent acti...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has challenged the construction industry in the UK to learn from the example of the construction of the London 2012 Olympic site in ord...
The union Unite has recently issued a safety rep alert around the current position with regards to the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations SI 1...
The deputy Prime Minister has this month stated that he wants small businesses to be subject to no more than two inspections a year by all regulators. Speaking to small-business leaders in Shoredit...
Households in England broke through the 40% recycling rate for the first time in 2010, however the speed at which recycling rates are increasing has continued to slow down.
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The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has published a consultation on several proposals aimed at simplifying the Climate Change Agreements (CCA) Scheme. The CCA...
Carluccio's, the chain of Italian restaurants and food shops, has been fined £15,000 for breaches of the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations, the current version of wh...
When they came into force in April 2010, the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations SI 2010/675 expanded the scope of environmental permitting to include,...
In recent times, awareness of the environmental protection issues affecting businesses has increased, and the influx of environmental legislation from the EU has resulted in hundreds of Regulations...
The Environment Agency has released a regulatory position statement regarding Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) in order to clarify the use of SIC codes on hazardous...
Environment Minister Alex Attwood has this month welcomed figures which show the amount of household waste collected by district councils has fallen by 4.2%, with recycling and composting rates ris...
A Dungiven firm, PB Formwork Ltd, has been fined more than £35,000 following a breach of health and safety legislation at a landfill site. The case relates to an incident last year at the Cottonmo...
A construction firm has been ordered to pay a total of £90,000 after an employee fell while working on the Liverpool ONE development. William Taylor was working in one of the new apartment blocks...
