It has affected ice-cream makers, swamped home-owners and soured the cider market, now Northern Ireland's washout summer has landed right on its beaches. The "summer of sludge" has left the shiftin...
A Redditch shop fittings company has pleaded guilty this month to charges of failing to meet its obligations under legislation relating to the recovery and recycling of packaging. AMS Group Ltd, wh...
It would appear that the UK is likely to put forward legislation within three months to cut carbon emissions in the fight against global warming. Environmentalists have suggested that the much anti...
A fact sheet to help the contaminated land sector understand the changes to landfill legislation which is coming into force later this year has been published by the Environment...
A farm worker was electrocuted this month after the combine harvester he was driving clipped power lines. The Nottingham University graduate who was working at Crystal Palace Farm in Wiltshire, lat...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a warning to demolition companies on the importance of finding out as much information as possible about the buildings or st...
An investigation is due to begin this month to establish the cause of two overnight fires which have destroyed an industrial laundry in South Belfast. Efforts were continuing in the early hours of...
A laundering plant and 25,000 litres of black market fuel has been seized by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) near the border in Northern Ireland. Tanks, three vehicles as well as filtration and stora...
The ban on livestock from Northern Ireland going to Great Britain for direct slaughter has been relaxed under certain conditions. Animals for slaughter can now move direct to an approved slaughter...
Health and safety experts all over the world appear to be undecided on the topic of whether printers can cause health problems for employees in a workplace environment. A research report from the Q...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), in accordance with the devolved administrations for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales has published a summ...
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI) in partnership with the Engineering Training Council and EEF, The Manufacturers' Organisation, is running a ser...
The Operators of the Stockline plastics factory in Maryhill, Scotland, have been fined a total of £400,000 over a gas explosion which killed nine people. ICL Plastics and ICL Tech admitted four cha...
One of Wrexham's biggest companies has been ordered to pay a total of £33,000 after two forklift truck drivers were badly injured. Frozen food firm Pann Krisp pleaded guilty to breaching the
A steel producing company has pleaded guilty this month to health and safety breaches after an employee received life-threatening burns as a result of falling feet first into a pit of hot chemicals...
