The Environment Agencies in Northern Ireland, England and Wales and the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) have jointly developed guidelines for businesses to tackle waste management and r...
Following the recently published Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations SI 2010/675, the Environment Agency has issued key guidance...
Plans drawn up by Labour to charge households based on how much rubbish they produce, have been scrapped by Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles.
The proposed “bin tax” was aimed at reducing...
Three companies were this month facing potentially unlimited fines after they were found guilty of legislation breaches in connection with the explosion at the Buncefield oil depot.
TAV Engi...
New figures released by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have shown that deaths at work have dropped to a record low during 2009-2010. The figures revealed that between...
A brick manufacturing company has been fined £280,000, plus costs, after a worker who had only been employed at the company’s distribution site for two weeks, was crushed to death.
The incid...
From April 2000 to March 2010, there were reported to have been 45 fatalities, 846 major injuries and 1730 minor injuries on building sites in Northern Ireland.
However, there were only 31 p...
The “static kill” of BP’s ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has plugged the leak, the company has revealed.
The procedure to permanently plug the ruptured well involves pumping mud a m...
A repatriation process to remove 250,000 tonnes of Irish household and commercial waste, believed to have been illegally dumped in Northern Ireland between 2002 and 2004, was put into motion at the...
A senior Northern Ireland coroner has urged Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster to introduce clear legislation following the electrocution of a six-year old who grabbed an 11,000-volt overhead line w...
An architectural practice and a construction company involved in the development of a conference centre in Somerset have been fined a total of £195,000 following a fatality at the site.
Bris...
The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations SI 2010/675 introduced a new set of waste exemptions, replacing those in the Environmental Permitting (England a...
A campaign by the pollution watchdog group, Surfers Against Sewage, which saw brown flags being placed on potentially contaminated Blue Flag beaches, has finally come to a head with Keep Britain Ti...
Scottish scientists have developed a method of producing biofuel from by-products of the whisky distilling process, which could be used to power cars and aviation. Researchers at Edinburgh Napier U...
Almost 90% of businesses in the UK are failing to meet their legal obligations to protect the sight of their staff, according to a survey commissioned by the Eyecare Trust.
The Trust and hea...
