The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has this month warned employers to make sure that they have suitable controls in place to prevent people being struck by moving vehicle...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have reminded employers of their legal duties relating to manual handling after an employee was injured when a 50kg sack of rice fell o...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have stressed the importance to employers of the need to regularly inspect and maintain their equipment to protect their workforce. Th...
A traditional pancake race was scrapped this month, apparently as a result of health and safety regulations. Every year, children and choristers take part in the Shrove Tuesday race in Ripon, Nort...
Building firm McAloon Construction Ltd, have been fined a total of £4,426 at Enniskillen Magistrates Court this month for failing to provide a safe system of work for their employees. The company,...
Omagh Leisure Complex had to close on Tuesday 19 February 2008, and a workman was taken to hospital following an accident while installing a new biomass boiler on the Old Mountfield Road Site. The...
A health and safety report has revealed a series of concerns at the Craigavon Golf and Ski Centre. One of the most serious revelations of the dossier was the use of tape to repair a frayed cable o...
Bluetongue disease has been detected in Northern Ireland for the first time. However, because of the circumstances Northern Ireland remains officially bluetongue free, since an outbreak is only co...
A Ballintoy sheep farmer who erected barriers preventing walkers from accessing part of the Causeway Coast claims to have taken the measure for health and safety reasons. Unfortunately, although S...
A record fine of £225,000 has this month been given to a Telford wine company guilty of packaging offences. Western Wines Limited pleaded guilty to nine charges under the Producer Responsibility O...
Registering for membership of Blockbuster Video stores is harder to achieve than registering on the Environment Agency's waste carrier database, a senior
A firm that admitted discharging 120 million litres of raw sewage into the Firth of Forth has been fined £13,500. Veolia Water Outsourcing, known at the time of the incident as Thames Water Servic...
London Mayor Ken Livingstone has announced that drivers of high-powered sports cars will have to pay a new £25 charge every time they enter central London, under plans to reduce congestion and cut...
Widespread water metering, plans to phase out phosphates from cleaning products and new planning rules to reduce storm water run-off are just a few of the issues tackled in the Government's new wat...
The Northern Ireland Water Company has been fined a trifling sum of £100, after untreated sewage was discovered in two West Belfast rivers. Belfast Magistrates Court heard that an
