Aberdeen-based company, Leiths Scotland Limited, has been ordered to pay £96,000 after an employee was fatally injured while working beneath a mechanical digger. The specialist quarry operati...
A Devon distribution company has been fined £200,000 plus £16,993 costs after a series of safety breaches caused the death of a Cornish vineyard owner.
The incident happened in...
MEPs and Member States have reached an agreement on the Industrial Emissions Directive, which will recast seven existing Directives relating to industrial emissions into a s...
Northern Ireland is still some way behind other parts of the UK, with households recycling less than 30% of waste.
New figures published this month show little improvement on last year’s, wi...
Climate change campaigners yesterday welcomed UN plans to amend the way changes to the Kyoto Protocol are made, in an effort to salvage negotiations on a new international deal. Under the plans, co...
A biscuit company has been fined £10,000 after a factory worker’s fingers were sliced off in a flapjack machine.
McVitie’s manufacturer United Biscuits (UK) Ltd was prosec...
Electrical retailer Comet Group plc has been fined £75,000 following the death of a contractor who fell through a roof light at its Wrexham store. Paul Alker was working for a roofing contrac...
Northern Ireland’s rivers are being checked for “gender bending” chemicals that could threaten the future of fish populations. Environment Minister Edwin Poots has revealed that 85 river sites are...
MEPs have backed rules that set new working hour limits for long-distance lorry drivers. Controversially, however, the 48-hour week limit will apply to both salaried and self-employed drivers.
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A report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) shows the EU is more than halfway to its target of cutting emissions by 20% from 1990 levels by 2020. The report reveals that emissions across the...
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has revealed that 62 people have died on Northern Ireland farms in the last 10 years.
Of those fatal accidents, 70% involved moving vehicles or livestock h...
A freight company based in Leeds has been fined £250,000, plus £100,000 costs, after a 59 year old worker was crushed to death by a case of glass. In Leeds Crown Court, Roadways Contain...
The UK has proposed a new twin-track climate deal this month to end the stalemate which has affected international talks on global warming since the failed Copenhagen climate conference last Decemb...
A County Antrim engineering firm has been fined £90,000 after the death of an employee.
FG Wilson pleaded guilty at Antrim Crown Court to two breaches of health and safety legislation...
The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations SI 2010/675 have now been published and will come into force on 6 April 2010. The new provisions will enable bus...
