It has been reported this month, that singer Lady Gaga demanded lambs and hundreds of butterflies on stage for her recent performance on the X Factor.
She astonished reality TV mogul Simon C...
The recent cold snap has no doubt led to plenty of queries regarding temperatures in the workplace.
The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations SI 1992/3004
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI) is facing a demand for loss of earnings from the contractor who cleared the Omagh bomb scene. An invoice for £...
James Hudson Demolition Ltd from Halifax has been fined £7,500 and ordered to pay costs of £20,000 after a worker suffered extensive injuries on a demolition site.
Gareth Dodds was working o...
It's been revealed that the Scottish body at the forefront of turning Scotland into a low-carbon economy is not in fact adhering to its own policies. After new monitoring software was installed on...
The operators of Grangemouth refinery have been fined £100,000 after an uncontrolled release of crude oil from a pipeline at the site on the Firth of Forth in May 2008.
This month the Government announced a number of proposed amendments to the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Order SI 2010/768, in a move which is likely to be welcomed by many p...
A Bakery firm from Evesham has been fined £23,500 and ordered to pay costs of £7,950 after an oil leak at their premises polluted up to two miles of the River Avon.
The E...
Residents near the Houghton Quarry landfill in Sunderland will be pleased to hear that action has finally been taken against the waste disposal company responsible for the persistent odours emittin...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging employers to assess the risks to their employees from exposure to vibration, after a Hampshire Company was fined a total of £...
Two businesses have been fined a total of almost £30,000 after hazardous waste residue was left in storage drums sent to a scrap yard.
Teesside Magistrates’ Court heard contaminated drums we...
The Environment Agency believes that the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) and Energy Efficiency Scheme could "spell the end for all-night lights and...
A construction company from Harrow has been fined £8,000 and forced to pay costs of £14,760 after poorly secured cladding seriously injured a pensioner.
Brendan Flynn Construction Limited wa...
A construction company, John Graham (Dromore) Limited, has been fined a total of £50,000 at Antrim Crown Court after breaching health and safety regulations.
A South Yorkshire firm, 4Ls Products Ltd, has been fined £15,000 after breaching the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
It was prosecuted following an incident i...
