A Port Talbot company, Vizor Tempered Glass, has been fined £50,000 and ordered to pay costs of £11,171, after a worker fell into a skip of glass. The glassmaker pleaded guilty to breaching the
A developer and a contractor from North London have been ordered to pay £275,000 after a Polish construction worker was left permanently disabled after a concrete slab fell on him. The incident to...
A firm have been ordered to pay a total of £35,504 after an unsafe floor collapsed and trapped 21 employers - during a health and safety meeting! Nobody was seriously hurt, but two workers suffere...
A village pantomime troupe has been forced to rewrite their script to comply with health and safety rules, which have led to police registering two plastic cutlasses and a toy gun. Captain Hook ha...
The year 2007 finally saw the introduction of some controversial and hugely anticipated legislation. The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations (WEEE) SI 2006/328...
In a stark pre-Christmas message, Green MEP Caroline Lucas warned that your Christmas dinner probably travelled around 30,000 miles this festive period before ending up on your plate. It is entire...
The people of Belfast were urged to give the planet a lift this Christmas by redoubling their recycling efforts. Belfast City Council says its latest figures shows the recycling rate for 2007/08 i...
The year 2007 saw the introduction of some controversial and hugely anticipated legislation. The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations SI 2007/320, came into forc...
A mobile Santa's grotto in Ceredigion has come to a halt after 30 years because of health and safety concerns. Santa had toured Lampeter and the surrounding villages on the back of a trailer since...
It would appear that the office Christmas party is dying out over fears that workers could sue over other employees' drunken antics and a prevailing "Scrooge" mentality over health and safety. A t...
According to official figures, each person throws away an average of 110lbs of rubbish at Christmas - the equivalent of nine regular sized turkeys or more than 60 loaves of bread. Christmas usuall...
It has been revealed this month that green revellers in Northern Ireland recycled almost two million Christmas cards last year as part of a Woodland Trust initiative. The Northern Ireland public m...
Across the water in Great Britain, a mobile Santa's grotto in Ceredigion, Wales has come to a halt after 30 years because of health and safety concerns. Santa had toured Lampeter and the surroundi...
Safety experts have begun an investigation into a fire at an oil refinery which saw flames shoot 100ft into the air. Specialists from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has this month warned employers that they must control the risks of falls from height in the workplace. This warning follows an
