The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) continues to struggle to make progress in implementing the WEEE Directive 2002/96/EC. Following various consul...
Plans to build Europe's largest incinerator in London have been given the go-ahead. The Department of Trade and Industry say the plant in Belvedere, South-East London will help tackle the city's se...
Scottish Natural Heritage has announced funding of more than £2.4 million, in an effort to save one of Scotland's rarest and most threatened habitats. The money will be made...
Bathers have been warned to stay clear of an Aberystwyth beach after untreated sewage leaked into the towns harbour. A water main burst on Thursday 15 June, which flooded a car park and entered dra...
A County Fermanagh farmer has been jailed for 9 months for dumping waste from the Irish Republic at his site in Northern Ireland. He is the first person to be imprisoned for such an offence. His wi...
Investigations are currently being carried out into a major fire at a fuel depot on the outskirts of North Belfast. Fire crews worked through the night to tackle the blaze at Hayes Fuel Depot in Li...
A draft Order which will transfer responsibility for delivering water services in the Province to a Government owned company was published for consultation this month. If the legislation goes ahead...
The Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland (DoE NI) is currently seeking views on their proposals to amend the Conservation (Natural Habitats etc.) Regulations (...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Environment Agency have launched a joint investigation into an incident which took place during the ear...
An incident at an outlet operated by national retail giant WM Morrison Supermarkets Plc, has resulted in the discovery of a state of neglect with regard to basic health and safety legal requirement...
Despite a national Height Aware Campaign in June by UK health and safety enforcement authorities to promote safer working at height, it would appear that in some parts of the country the message is...
The Royal Mail and contracting organisation Romec have been fined for safety failures that resulted in an engineer falling 10 metres through a fragile rooflight to his death at West London Mail Cen...
Forth Ports have admitted breaching health and safety legislation, which resulted in an industrial accident at Leith docks in Scotland in December 2004. A crane surveyor was injured by an unguarded...
The latest report of the ongoing investigation into the explosion at the Buncefield oil depot on 11 December last year has been published by the Buncefield Major Incident Investigation Board. The t...
The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) has confirmed most of the proposals for the revised asbestos regulations, which will combine the existing legislation on control at wo...
