British companies were fined for the first time in December 2006, for failing to comply with a European scheme to control carbon emissions. The Environment Agency fined four...
Mobile phones may be one of our smaller electronic possessions, but it has been suggested that the environmental issues surrounding them are proving to be a sizeable problem. It is estimated that a...
The Environment and Heritage Service (EHS) have claimed to be "successfully tackling" waste dumping, according to the head of its environmental crime unit. However, as repor...
The Water Abstraction and Impoundment (Licensing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) SR 2006/482, will come into force on 1 February 2007 and aim to provide a regime for the reg...
A Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland (DoE NI) report has shown that air quality in Northern Ireland is continuing to improve, despite some localised problems...
The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) has published a public consultation document seeking views on a merging between themselves and the Health and Safe...
A joint police and Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation is currently underway, after two firefighters were killed in an explosion at a fireworks factory on 3 Dece...
Steel giants Corus UK Ltd have been ordered to pay more than £3 million for breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 at a factory where a massive explosion killed th...
Two companies have been fined more than £265,000 after a sub-contractor was almost crushed to death. The worker was pinned to a conveyor belt after a piece of equipment he was helping to install be...
According to a new report, over 5,000 lives have been saved in the 32 years since the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 came into force. The estimate comes from a
The Northern Ireland Water Service has been held responsible for the death of a contractor killed in an explosion at a treatment works in 2005. The welder in question lost h...
Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) have released their figures for April to September 2006, which show the total third party damage faults on the high and low voltage network. This was accompanied...
Back pain is a major cause of work-related sickness absence in the UK, and one in five of those who suffer work-related ill health complain of back problems. Earlier in 2006, the
The Government have confirmed that the long awaited smoking ban will come into force on 30 April 2007. The issue of smoking in public places has been a topical subject in recent years, and it will...
December 2006 saw the publication of proposals for two new Regulations, the Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 and the Carri...
