A new online directory to help businesses find a health and safety consultant that they can trust to give sensible, expert advice was launched on 21 March.
More than 1,600 highly qualified p...
From 1 April 2011, the UK's first environmental tax increased by £8 per tonne, making the cost of sending waste to landfill £56 per tonne.
The landfill tax was originally introduced by the C...
High street giant Marks and Spencer have been accused of failing to protect workers and shoppers in a series of alleged asbestos related failures between 2004 and 2006. The breaches were thought to...
A green activist's plan to hold a "drumming for the planet" event with 50 friends in Galashiels, Selkirkshire has fallen foul of health and safety rules.
The activist, Alan Sutherland, who a...
A metal fabrication firm has been fined this month, after a 22-year old man's hand was severed by a machine.
Jamie Raynor of Queensbury, Bradford, who worked on a casual basis for RDB Fabric...
Health and Safety Minister, Arlene Foster, has launched a new strategy to improve the regulation of health and safety at work in Northern Ireland.
The strategy, entitled "Health and safety a...
Britain is to undergo its biggest ever civil emergency drill, "Exercise Watermark", in order to test the nation's ability to respond to a range of major flood emergencies. An En...
A referendum on direct law-making powers for the Welsh Assembly has resoundingly backed change. The final result saw 517,132 vote "yes" in favour of enhanced law-making powe...
A Country Antrim waste management company has been fined £60,000, and ordered to pay costs of £20,000 after the death of an employee at its landfill site in Mallusk in August 2008.
Although...
A Fife paper-making company has been hit with a penalty of £260,000 after failing to ensure the safety of one of its workers.
Thomas Sturrock, had been contracted to clean the roof of...
Following the publication of a report revealing the rise of noise complaints, Environment Minister, Edwin Poots is urging councils to step up their efforts to drive down the level of noise nuisance...
The EU has announced this month that they want to tighten rules on waste electronic and electrical equipment (WEEE). MEPs have proposed new targets for collecting, recycling and reusing waste, and...
A dramatic fall in greenhouse gas emissions following the recession has brought the UK's climate change targets for the next five years within easy reach, taking the pressure off Government and bus...
A demolition firm has been fined £1,500, with costs of £10,000, after failing to manage and monitor asbestos removal work at a site in Nottinghamshire.
Yorkshire-based Libra Demolition Ltd w...
Stunned grandmother, Betty Wilson, expressed her shock after a faulty blast at a quarry sent an enormous boulder smashing through her roof and into her shower.
Mrs Wilson feared she could h...
