The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is prosecuting three companies and one individual following its investigation into a fatal scaffolding collapse, at the McAteer & R...
Health and safety considerations mean workers are no longer allowed to use steps on the backs of moving lorries. For years the sight of bin men riding on the back of refuse trucks, a practice which...
This year saw the introduction of legislation which required anyone intending to carry out a construction project in England costing more than £300,000 to prepare a site waste management plan (SWMP...
The European Council of Ministers has adopted the revised Waste Framework Directive, a decision that means the UK will now be expected to reach a 50% household recycling rate by 2020.
Controversial pay-as-you-throw schemes could be an acceptable answer to Britain's 15 million tonne mountain of household waste according to a BBC survey. From January 2009, councils in England will...
Nuclear plant operator Sellafield and demolition contractors PC Richardson & Co have been fined a total of £250,000 over the death of a worker who fell 95 metres from an unprotected ledge...
Ireland's meat scandal has moved from pork to beef, after tests on cattle that ate contaminated feed showed the presence of potentially dangerous dioxins. Officials revealed that almost 50 cattle h...
While most people look forward to the forthcoming Christmas parties, presents and food, few will stop to think about the amount of waste created during the festive period.
In the UK, it is e...
Father Christmas has gone green this Christmas in a Wyevale garden centre in Chichester and travelled to his grotto in an environmentally-friendly pedal-powered cab.
Centre manager, Colin Bu...
On 6 April 2008 this year, we finally saw the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 come fully into force. The Act created a new offence of corporate mansla...
Health and safety regulations have once again been misinterpreted and seen to dampen Christmas spirit across the UK.
Prohibitive red tape is said to have forced a Bristol couple to abandon t...
You will no doubt have read countless articles about the potential pitfalls of an office Christmas party and the health and safety implications of putting up the office decorations. So instead of...
The pre-registration process under Regulation (EC) 1907/2006, on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) is drawing to a conclusion....
An investigation has been launched by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) after another fish kill in Portadown. Stone loach, roach and trout are amongst the species killed in what has be...
A health and safety inspector had to be rescued by firefighters this month after he fell from a ladder while he was carrying out a risk assessment. The 55-year old engineer was checking office buil...
