Further research carried out by the Health and Safety Laboratory has confirmed earlier suspicions that risks from asbestos containing textured coatings are much lower than previously thought, and t...
A youth worker for Durham County Council who was accused of faking a back injury, has been awarded £33,000 in compensation in a union backed case. UNISON member Dean Gibbon received the payou...
The Buncefield Major Incident Investigation Board, which was established to supervise the joint Environment Agency and Health and Safety Executive (H...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) have this month announced a consultation on creating a streamlined environmental permitting and compliance sys...
A new study from the Washington DC based environmental group the Earth Policy Institute has concluded that production of bottled water is seriously damaging the environment. The group claims that t...
A major consultation on the Government's strategy for waste has suggested that a broader approach and a change of emphasis is needed. This could involve working more closely with businesses and ret...
The European Commission have rejected plans by the UK to increase the level of pollution heavy industry can emit under the European Union trading scheme, which is a key element in the fight to redu...
A major review was launched in February that could mark the end for the Department of the Environment in its current form. The study, which involves a Government panel of ex...
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) have issued a consultation document which contains proposals for new Control of Asbestos Regulations (Northern I...
The Drainage (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) SR 2006/34 are due to come into force on 20 March 2006, and will replace the previous Regulatio...
Omni-Pac (UK) Ltd was fined a total of £50,000 and ordered to pay costs of £86,000 in February, after pleading guilty to breaching sections 2 and 3 of the Health and Safety at W...
A specialist company from Oxfordshire who were responsible for transporting an emitting flask containing a radioactive isotope, has been fined £250,000 along with costs of £150,000, for breaching t...
A commercial vehicle driver from Sheffield has received around £47,000 in an out of court settlement from his former employers Onyx UK, of Beighton, Yorkshire, as a result of losses from having to...
Smoking will be outlawed in all pubs, restaurants, private clubs and workplaces across Britain by the summer of next year, after MPs voted overwhelmingly to extend a complete ban to England. Only p...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have served two summonses on Corus UK Ltd, for breaches of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, followi...
