A man died after a splinter penetrated his eye socket and brain during the filming of an historical re-enactment.
The accident happened during a jousting event to be used in a Channel 4 arc...
A construction worker had a lucky escape when the forklift truck he was driving toppled over and crashed onto beach huts on Lyme Regis seafront.
The worker was unloading materials when the...
A brewery has been ordered to pay £27,481 in fines and costs after breaching fire safety legislation following a prosecution by the London Fire Brigade.
Punch Taverns PLC pleaded guilty to s...
Health and safety consultants are being invited to sign up to a new independent register, which is intended to become a new benchmark for standards in the profession.
The Occupational Safety...
Anglian Water has been fined £35,000 and ordered to pay full costs of over £7,000 after a sewage treatment works discharged sewage into the River Wid in Essex for more than three hours, killing hun...
The HSE and the HSE NI have co-operated to bring a safety alert to the attention of users of scissor lifts.
Users of certain types of scissor...
In January 2010 new legislation came into force that require retailers selling batteries to provide collection and recycling facilities for their eventual disposal. Some town halls, libraries and...
Key states have reached what they consider to be a "meaningful agreement" at the Copenhagen climate summit. Five nations, including China and the US, reached a deal on a number of issues such as a...
This year saw the coming into force of the Climate Change Act 2008 and the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009, both of which help to establish a fram...
This year saw the coming into force of the Health and Safety (Offences) Act 2008, which increased the number of situations in which people can be imprisoned for health and s...
Mariah Carey had vowed to make her public appearance at London's Westfield Shopping Centre an event to remember.
Unfortunately, the singer was left frustrated after her desire for 20 white...
A Friends of the Earth (FoE) report has this month revealed that the UK is currently throwing away over £650 million every year by dumping and incinerating waste which, if recycled, could save 19 m...
In the past 12 months, there have been two fatalities and numerous accidents involving workers falling from cages being used as temporary working platforms in Northern Ireland.
The first of two new fire and rescue service operational guidance generic risk assessments (GRAs) has been published, and offers guidance on turning out and arriving at the scene of an accident, an...
A man who was crushed in a tragic factory accident managed to walk away after building material weighing three-quarters of a ton fell on him, before he died hours later in hospital.
Kieran...
