Wildlife campaigners have warned that Ulster's finest wildlife sites could have disappeared by the time the Government gets round to protecting them. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (...
Statistics published this month by the Health and Safety Commission (HSC) have shown that the number of working days lost in Great Britain due to work-related injury and ill...
The Government has come under renewed pressure to set a firm date for ending the individual worker's right to opt-out of the maximum average 48-hour week stipulated by EU law. Finland, the current...
Brick giant Hanson Building Products Ltd has been fined a total of £113,660 under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, after a workman fell from a tower and injured...
New online guidance has been produced in an attempt to help inform employers about one of the least recognised health issues - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD is a term used to d...
A worker has been awarded £20,000 after his employers went against the advice of company doctors and exposed him to work that was repetitive and involved vibration. From 1976 to 2000, the employee...
Scotland's fire services have had to scrap hundred of leaflets, after a mistake urged members of the public to jump on a donkey when fleeing a house fire. The leaflet by the Scottish Executive for...
The new European regime for the regulation of chemicals aimed at ensuring a high level of protection for human health and the environment has reached the second reading committee stage, meaning it...
A climate change bill which could see regular targets put in place to cut UK carbon dioxide emissions is currently being considered by the Government, and could see an independent system to gauge p...
It is now nine months since the explosion at the Buncefield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead, and all that remains is an industrial wasteland of melted containers and miles of twisting pipes. The explo...
Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) minister Ian Pearson is to address a water industry gathering in November, to discuss proposals to simplify th...
A Bolton man who illegally dumped and burnt waste for profit has been caught on camera in a covert surveillance operation. Vittorio Magari was filmed by Environment Agency o...
More than two tonnes of semolina fell on a seaside town this month after a factory silo overfilled, malfunctioned and blasted the grain into the air, covering the streets of Great Yarmouth in a whi...
Northern Ireland's local daily papers are seeking a judicial review over changes to the publication of planning notices. In October, the Department of the Environment (DoE)...
A network of authorised treatment facilities (ATFs) has now been established across Northern Ireland to deal with scrap vehicles that come under the End of Life Vehicles (ELV) Directive
