A road worker has received £42,000 following injuries caused by exposure to vibrating tools. UNISON secured the compensation for the man who was working for Derbyshire County Council when he suffer...
This month, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) served a prohibition notice under the Health and Safety at Work 1974 on Falcon Crane Hire Ltd, of S...
Fire crews have this month been battling against a major fire at a fuel depot in west Belfast. Around 14 appliances and up to 70 firefighters from as far away as Warrenpoint were involved in tackli...
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI) have recently held a Farm Health and Safety Awareness Day in Ballymena, in a bid to highlight the dangers encou...
To further emphasise the potential dangers of farm and agricultural work, a close-knit rural community in County Tyrone has been left devastated following the sudden death of a farmer in a slurry a...
A case taken by the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI) against the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), has been adjourned for one month at Stra...
Councillors in Northern Ireland are becoming increasingly concerned that pubs are not taking the smoking ban seriously and will not be prepared in time. The issue was raised by Derry City Council c...
From 20 February 2007 new provisions came into force to crack down on those who intentionally obstruct emergency workers trying to carry out their work. The Emergency Workers (O...
A report backed by the major environmental groups has suggested that the green movement needs to re-brand itself because the majority of people are put off by its "sackcloth and ashes" image. While...
EC Regulation 1907/2006, on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) has finally been published, and will come into force on 1 June 2...
Coastguards have now confirmed that some 200 tonnes of oil have leaked from a fuel tank on the stricken cargo ship MSC Napoli, which is beached off the Devon coast. The ship has also lost around 20...
Scottish Water has been fined £10,000 after admitting discharging sewage into a burn. The utility company pleaded guilty at Dunfermline Sheriff Court on 16 January, to allowing waste to enter the b...
A Berkshire man and his company have been prosecuted this month for running an illegal waste dump that was so large it required a global positioning satellite to calculate its size. Cecil Wiggins a...
The Environment Agency have this month begun to formally approve the first batch of producer compliance schemes under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulatio...
Figures published this month have shown that the UK is on track to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to almost double its target set at Kyoto. The figures, which are the final figures for 2005,...
