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...
A rail worker has lost both his feet while helping to manoeuvre a nine carriage train. The vehicle was in sidings close to Harlow Mill Railway Station in Essex, on Wednesday 22 August 2007, when th...
A Newtownabbey firm has become the first company in the UK to be declared as an authorised facility for the recycling and disposal of electronic computer hardware. Asset Management Ireland (AMI) i...
Two businessmen have been jailed for the manslaughter of a worker who was crushed to death at a concrete plant. The 28 year old technician was killed at the Concrete Company on the Longwater Indust...
Two companies have been fined £115,000 for breaching health and safety legislation after an employee suffered serious head injuries after being struck by a car leaving the premises of Rigid C...
Asda has been ordered to pay a total of £97,500 by Dorchester Crown Court after one of its workers was crushed by a forklift truck and left permanently disfigured. The 42 year old was working in th...
Launching the latest work related fatal injury statistics this month, Health and Safety Commission Chair Sir Bill Callaghan said the loss of 241 lives is unacceptable and is...
An inquest has heard how a lack of ventilation and a poor working practice could have led to the death of a business man who was found slumped over a drum of chemicals. The 58 year old man became o...
The Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland (DoE NI) have this month announced their intention to revise the application process for agricultural waste exemptions...
Councillors in Limavady have expressed concerns over unauthorised dumping at the Drumaduff landfill site near Dungiven, which has been closed since 6 July 2007. The Environment...
With the world's oil reserves running out, the pressure is on to produce '"home-grown" biodiesel to keep our vehicles running. In light of this, Northern Ireland farmers are carrying out their own...
The Belfast site of plane maker Bombardier is joining a research project to improve the environmental performance of aircraft engines. The five-year £95 million Environmentally Friendly Engine (EFE...
The standard, BS OHSAS 18001:2007 Occupational health and safety management systems - Requirements, has now been published and will eventually replace OHSAS 18001:1999 in due course. There have be...
Economy Minister Nigel Dodds has said this month that he is doing everything in his power to reduce the level of deaths and injuries in the workplace. Mr Dodds was speaking at the release of the la...
An inquest at Enniskillen has heard details of how a refuse collector riding on the back of a bin lorry died when it was involved in a collision with an articulated lorry. The coroner at the inques...
