A cross-border conference in Monaghan heard that the agricultural sector continues to have a poor safety record with news that there have been 16 fatal farm accidents on the island this year.
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A Downpatrick construction company is making sure that its employees look after their skin as the summer fast approaches. The Polly Group has joined with a local pharmacy chain in an initiative to...
UK workers can still work more than 48 hours a week after a new agreement on both an amendment of the Working Time Directive 2003/88/EC and a proposed Ag...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have this month warned vehicle repair and maintenance engineers of the dangers of working under vehicles, after Dennis Eagle Limited, a...
An accident which saw a chef in a Manchester restaurant suffer serious burns to his foot has cost his employers a total of £14,584. The chef slipped as he stood on greasy kitchen equipment to...
The European Parliament has voted to approve the revised Waste Framework Directive, meaning it should soon become law. The revised Directive will require Member States to achieve a 50% re-use and...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have stressed the importance to employers of the need to make sure workplace risks are properly assessed and that suitable protective e...
A consultation has been issued on draft regulations for implementing the requirements of Directive 2006/66/EC, on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumula...
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI) have launched an investigation after a fatal accident involving a dumper truck on a County Antrim building site...
Official figures have shown that drivers of work vehicles have borne the brunt of the smoking ban introduced last year by the Smoke-free (Premises, Vehicle Operators and Penalty Notices) Regulation...
Northern Ireland will not have an independent "green" watchdog, Environment Minister Arlene Foster has said. Instead, the Environmental Heritage Service (EHS) will be re-br...
A leading US hard-disc manufacturer, Seagate Technology Media (Ireland) Ltd, has been fined £6,000 after pleading guilty to discharging toxic chemicals into a Londonderry sewerage system.
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Bombardier Aerospace in Belfast has said it is joining a research programme to help produce "green aircraft". It is one of 16 companies in the UK taking part in developing new wings.
The £1...
Northern Ireland Water Ltd have been fined £5,000 for pollution offences after an inspector, acting on behalf of the Environment and Heritage Service...
There have been a number of successful prosecutions this month for breaches of the Water (Northern Ireland) Order SI 1999/662.
In the first case, Dunbia (Northern Ire...
