Forth Ports have admitted breaching health and safety legislation, which resulted in an industrial accident at Leith docks in Scotland in December 2004. A crane surveyor was injured by an unguarded...
The latest report of the ongoing investigation into the explosion at the Buncefield oil depot on 11 December last year has been published by the Buncefield Major Incident Investigation Board. The t...
The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) has confirmed most of the proposals for the revised asbestos regulations, which will combine the existing legislation on control at wo...
Enforcement watchdog the Environment Agency has been fined for polluting the River Exe in Somerset. It is the first time in the ten year history of the organisation, which a...
Agreement was finally reached this month on Proposal COM(2003)723, for a Directive on batteries and accumulators and spent batteries and accumulators. The proposal which was first introduced in Nov...
Waste protocols which will define when ten waste streams cease to be waste are currently being developed by the Environment Agency and the Waste and Resources Action Program...
A study has identified Reading as the UK's worst offending town for carbon dioxide emissions, with the average household there emitting the same amount of carbon dioxide as flying 13,000 miles by B...
Northern Ireland's politicians are preparing to take their seats in the Stormont assembly for the first time since October 2002, however there is no immediate prospect of a power sharing executive...
The revised Northern Ireland Waste Strategy issued by the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland (DoE NI) has promised to develop proposals which will provide co...
The Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland (DoE NI) is carrying out a consultation on the draft Water Abstraction and Impoundment (Licensing) Regulations 2006. T...
Customs officers have seized 12,000 litres of contaminated diesel from a fuel laundering plant in County Armagh. The plant at Belleeks was estimated to have been able to produce 150,000 litres of f...
A farmer from Knockninny Hill, Derrylin, County Fermanagh has been fined £20,000 for damaging an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI), in July 2004. The Environment and He...
Clifton Steel Ltd of Fazeley Street, Birmingham, have been fined £150,000 with £20,000 costs after admitting breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. On...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has stressed that anyone involved in lifting operations on building sites has a responsibility to make sure they are properly planned a...
G. F. Smith and Son (London) Ltd of Hull, have been prosecuted and fined a total of £7,750 for breaching health and safety law, which resulted in an industrial accident where an 18 year old warehou...
