A consultation looking at proposals for the enforcement of EC Regulation 1907/2006, on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) in th...
Water bills which were due to be posted out on Tuesday 27 March have been put on hold for 12 months, following the news that power-sharing will return to Northern Ireland. Secre...
The first official trials of a "pay as you throw" rubbish scheme have started in Northern Ireland, paving the way for potential wheelie bin taxes. Nearly 250,000 households have had microchips fitt...
A pioneering large-scale biodiesel plant based in Ulster has launched production this month, and is supplying fuel to a leading green charity. The team behind the fuel plant at Laurencetown, near C...
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations SI 2007/320 are still on course to come into force on 6 April 2007, despite concern from certain groups. The Forum of Pr...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has produced new guidance to help employers tackle the issue of contact dermatitis in the workplace. Contact dermatitis is an allergic...
Office workers who spend long hours at their desk may be more prone to potentially fatal blood clots than passengers on long-haul flights, according to new research. Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is t...
Greater Manchester Waste Ltd have been fined a total of £56,750 at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court, after pleading guilty to three charges related to an incident where an employee su...
It has been reported this month that a substance which is more than one million times more radioactive than uranium, was lost by a university for five days. The radium 226 went missing from York Un...
Police in the Newry and Mourne area of Northern Ireland have this month seized some 3,500 illegally refilled gas cylinders and bulk storage tanks amounting to around 24 tonnes of liquefied petroleu...
A health and safety investigation has been launched after four Ulster teenagers were injured on a high speed funfair ride during a carnival weekend. The teenagers were all treated in hospital follo...
A new scheme has been launched by the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI), which is aimed at keeping children safe on Northern Ireland's farms. An acti...
A new and improved website to help companies meet their packaging and recycling obligations has been launched this month. The National Packaging Waste Database (NPWD) aims to make it easier for com...
As you will no doubt be aware, the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations SI 2006/3289 were published in December 2006 and began to come into force on...
The operators of the Dounreay nuclear plant in Scotland were fined £140,000 in February 2007, for dumping radioactive waste at a landfill and releasing nuclear fragments into the sea over a 21 year...
