A recent report has revealed that a three-year old boy had his head trapped between an electric security gate and the gate post at a Bournemouth primary school. Health and safety officials are stil...
A prominent Ulster building company has been fined for sewage pollution originating from one of its developments. FP McCann (Developments) Ltd from Drumard Road, Magherafelt was prosecuted by the...
David Cameron has made a pledge to cut carbon emissions by 10% in the first 12 months of the new coalition Government. Speaking at the Department of Energy and Climate Change</...
Battery collection figures for the first three months of the year published by the Environment Agency indicate a good start to meeting the end of year targets. The UK is co...
Environment Agency staff will no longer be allowed to fly anywhere in England and Wales and will now have to journey by train. Flights to Paris and Brussels are also banned...
Belfast-based construction company Fernwave Limited was fined £30,000, plus costs, after pleading guilty to three breaches of health and safety legislation brought against them by the
The owner of a Penrith wood processing plant has been fined £20,000, plus costs, after a worker had his foot completely severed by a log shavings machine. The owner, Allan Jenkinson, pleaded guilty...
A Government plan to hold a review of existing waste policy has been welcomed by waste management firms and environmental campaign groups as a way of bringing together and “accelerating” the existi...
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...
