Figures from the Freedom of Information Act 2000 released recently have revealed that the Water Service in Northern Ireland has caused more than 1,500 pollution incidents between 2000 and 2005. Thi...
In other water news this month, Northern Ireland's water and sewerage framework is set to be modernised, following the publication of the Water and Sewerage Service (Northern Ireland) Order
A major environmental clean-up is currently under way in South Armagh, where the contents of an illegal landfill site are being sent back across the border to the Republic where it originated. A fl...
A leading environmental pressure group has given a mixed reaction to leaked plans for a major shake-up in the way Northern Ireland is governed. Details were revealed by Friends of the Earth (FoE) t...
A further 25,000 Belfast households are to be included in a kerbside recycling scheme. The city council service, which is being delivered by the charity Bryson House, aims to make recycling more co...
It has been announced this month that guidance relating to the new Contruction (Design and Management) Regulations, which was planned to be available now, will not be released until mid February. T...
A toxic leak at a chemical factory in Teesside on 4 January 2007, left 37 people injured. All the casualties suffered burns, skin irritation and breathing difficulties at the BASF site in Seal Sand...
Two companies have been fined this month, following serious breaches of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulation...
An industrial dry cleaners in Sheffield pleaded guilty this month to breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, following an incident in October 2004 where an enginee...
It has been announced that the smokefree elements of the Health Act 2006 will come into force on 6am in 1 July 2007. This will mean that virtually all enclosed public places...
The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI) has announced the publication of the Control of Asbestos Regulations (Northern Ireland) SR 2007...
The horrific child death toll on Ulster farms, which has seen 16 fatalities in the last decade, has resulted in proposals for new tough health and safety laws. Figures released by the Health and sa...
A construction worker was taken to hospital with head injuries on 19 January, after a crane collapsed on a South Belfast building site. One end of the horizontal crane left its mooring on the roof...
A publicity campaign aimed at making people aware of Northern Ireland's new no smoking laws is due to be launched. The provisions, made under the Smoking (Northern Ireland) Order
The "Essentials" approach has recently been developed by the Health and Safety Executive Northern Ireland (HSE NI), to provide easily accessible guidance on controlling empl...
