Owner of the Cornhill Hotel in Blackpool, Alan Diamond, has been given a nine-month suspended sentence after a two-year investigation by Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service (LFRS) found extremely se...
Building Mental Health and the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity have teamed up with Safer Highways to launch a major exercise to understand where the construction industry lies on its road...
A new £80 million fund has been announced by the Government to help cut emissions from homes and energy intensive businesses. It will allow appropriate businesses to apply for grants to insta...
After introducing an innovative strategy in 2018, Guernsey is now recycling and composting 73% of its household waste. Its 70% target on recycling of household waste by 2030 was exceeded in the fir...
A new survey carried out by Fletchers Serious Injury has found that of 1,000 people asked, over 27% suffered a serious injury caused by a workplace accident.
Over 19% of respondents s...
Between January and March 2020 over 40% of the UK's electricity was generated from renewable energy.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEI...
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) are urging people to act safely around railways after reporting showed a spike of incidents, both near-miss and trespass, on the railway.</...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have prosecuted Cargilfield School in Scotland, following an incident where a pupil was injured by a band saw.
From 1 September...
Warwick District Council have been ordered to pay a local wildlife group £1000 after their decision to approve a planning application failed to properly consider the effect of the d...
On 24 March 2017, Mr Javeed Ghaffar, an employee at IFG Drake Ltd, was fatally crushed after he became entangled in a synthetic fibre manufacturing machine. He was removing a lap (when fibres...
Specialist battery firm, Zenobe Energy, have secured a £20 million loan which will help them to finance enough batteries to power around 100 electric buses across the UK.
The com...
As we start the journey to return to work we are all seeking guidance and advice from the government and other national and international agencies. Here at Cedrec we are collating relevant guidance...
From Autumn 2021, five electric intercity trains will be providing passenger services on route from Edinburgh to London.
The trains are currently being manufactured by Hitachi Rail at their...
The Government have announced a new building safety fund designed to meet the cost for unsafe non-ACM cladding on residential buildings that are 18 metres and over, and don't comply with building r...
A new bioenergy with carbon capture storage (BECCS) pilot will get underway this Autumn at Drax Power Station.
It is hoped that the implementation of this new technology could deliver 16 mi...
