A farm worker was electrocuted this month after the combine harvester he was driving clipped power lines. The Nottingham University graduate who was working at Crystal Palace Farm in Wiltshire, lat...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a warning to demolition companies on the importance of finding out as much information as possible about the buildings or st...
An investigation is due to begin this month to establish the cause of two overnight fires which have destroyed an industrial laundry in South Belfast. Efforts were continuing in the early hours of...
A laundering plant and 25,000 litres of black market fuel has been seized by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) near the border in Northern Ireland. Tanks, three vehicles as well as filtration and stora...
The ban on livestock from Northern Ireland going to Great Britain for direct slaughter has been relaxed under certain conditions. Animals for slaughter can now move direct to an approved slaughter...
Health and safety experts all over the world appear to be undecided on the topic of whether printers can cause health problems for employees in a workplace environment. A research report from the Q...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), in accordance with the devolved administrations for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales has published a summ...
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI) in partnership with the Engineering Training Council and EEF, The Manufacturers' Organisation, is running a ser...
The Operators of the Stockline plastics factory in Maryhill, Scotland, have been fined a total of £400,000 over a gas explosion which killed nine people. ICL Plastics and ICL Tech admitted four cha...
One of Wrexham's biggest companies has been ordered to pay a total of £33,000 after two forklift truck drivers were badly injured. Frozen food firm Pann Krisp pleaded guilty to breaching the
A steel producing company has pleaded guilty this month to health and safety breaches after an employee received life-threatening burns as a result of falling feet first into a pit of hot chemicals...
A rail worker has lost both his feet while helping to manoeuvre a nine carriage train. The vehicle was in sidings close to Harlow Mill Railway Station in Essex, on Wednesday 22 August 2007, when th...
A Newtownabbey firm has become the first company in the UK to be declared as an authorised facility for the recycling and disposal of electronic computer hardware. Asset Management Ireland (AMI) i...
Two businessmen have been jailed for the manslaughter of a worker who was crushed to death at a concrete plant. The 28 year old technician was killed at the Concrete Company on the Longwater Indust...
Two companies have been fined £115,000 for breaching health and safety legislation after an employee suffered serious head injuries after being struck by a car leaving the premises of Rigid C...
