This month as part of an initiative to reduce the number of slips and trips on construction sites, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are carrying out a nationwide "Watch...
The owner of A&E Buildings has been found guilty of the manslaughter of an employee who fell to his death from improvised equipment while constructing a steel-framed barn on a river in Kinver, Sout...
The Amtico Company Limited of Coventry, have been fined a total of £48,567 after pleading guilty to breaching section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. They...
A report on identifying potential failures in the specification, use and maintenance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) at work has been commissioned and published by the He...
The Environment Agency and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have now been formally asked to investigate December's incident at the Buncefield oi...
The future of the Kyoto Protocol was looking bleak last month as the world's nations geared up to climate change talks in Montreal on 28 November. However, the outcomes appear to have surprised eve...
Councils are currently investigating what happens to their recycled rubbish, in light of a BBC documentary which suggested that around 500 tonnes had been shipped to Indonesia. Customs at Jakarta i...
Further delays to the UK implementation of the WEEE Directive became apparent this month, after the DTI announced that they were intending to immediately...
EU ministers finally came to an agreement in December over the highly contentious REACH Regulation, in spite of the German general election and further intense lobbying from industry and environmen...
New waste proposals published by the European Commission could result in more household waste being incinerated. The draft Waste Framework Directive sets out an agenda for waste policy in Europe an...
An experimental new 8.5 million tidal energy product in Strangford Lough has been described as a fantastic opportunity for Northern Ireland to demonstrate their commitment to renewable and sustaina...
A new EHS Northern Ireland Air Quality Monitoring Report has just been published for 2004, which shows that air quality is good in Northern Ireland for most of the time.
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The HSE is currently discussing possible new ways of enforcing breaches in health and safety legislation. Due to the lack of sentencing options available to courts, prosecut...
The HSC's proposed amendments to the current asbestos legislation has raised some crucial questions. It has been suggested that the Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations <...
The recycling industry has recorded yet another fatal accident, where an employee at JFC plastics became trapped and crushed in a plastic bottle repossessing machine at their St Helens site. In Aug...
