High levels of absence in the Northern Ireland Civil Service cost the taxpayer £25.6m during the last financial year. The figures on sickness for 2006/07, in a report by the Northern Ireland Stati...
A family who owned a farm where a Strabane man died after a wall fell on him, made valiant attempts to free him using a tractor, an inquest has heard this month. Limavady Coroner's Court was told t...
Gabriel Kane, trading as Northside Demolition, has been fined a total of £1,526 after pleading guilty at Belfast Magistrates Court on 30 October 2007 to breaches of health and safety legislation....
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI) and the Institute of Directors Northern Ireland Division (IoD) have joined forces this month to launch new guid...
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) has advised that there is a further relaxation in the trade conditions for live animals to be exported to Britain....
Environment Minister Hilary Benn put the Climate Change Bill before Parliament on Thursday 15 November 2007, making the UK the first country to set itself such targets as a legal requirement rather...
It has emerged that Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland (DoE NI) officials were warned three years ago that a private development at the Giant's Causeway coul...
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI) has this month released its Annual Report and Statement of Accounts, covering the period April 2006 to March 20...
McGreevy Construction Limited was fined a total of £22,500 on 11 October 2007 at Belfast Crown Court, after pleading guilty to numerous breaches of health and safety regulations. The court case fol...
The eldest brother of a 57 year old farmer who fell 14ft to his death at his family farm in Moneymore almost four years ago has described the moment he found his fatally injured brother. Stewart Mc...
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) has this month reminded farmers in Northern Ireland to remain vigilant for the signs of Bluetongue disease. They...
Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) have launched a new safety information campaign "Think before you dig", to raise awareness of safe working practices around the electricity network for anyone in...
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI), in conjunction with Build Health, are running two half day seminars at Ballymena's NE Institute on Tuesday 11 December and Omagh's FE...
It was announced on Monday 22 October 2007, that Northern Ireland householders are going to have to pay water charges, but they have been postponed for another year. The charges will be phased in...
The Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland (DoE) has been urged this month to take a tougher approach towards hardcore offenders. Illegal dumpers and problems w...
