Category Archives: HSE News

IOSH’s ‘Technicians’ are now Technical members after a renaming of the membership category. The Institution has made the change after listening to Tech members, who said the new title was a clearer, more precise description of who they are. IOSH … Continue reading →

The director of a concrete structures firm has been ordered to pay a total of £25,000 in fines and costs after a worker died following a fall from height at a Swansea building site. Carillion Construction Ltd, Febrey Ltd and … Continue reading →

An Ilkeston food company has been fined after an employee severed the tip of his finger in a mincing machine. The man, who has asked not to be named, injured his left index finger as he tried to remove meat … Continue reading →

A consultation on a revised Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) L24 Newly published consultative document CD253 (available for download from the link shown below) invites views on the revised Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) L24 ‘Workplace health, safety and welfare’.  L24 … Continue reading →

A Midlands engineering firm has been fined £133,000 after its emergency plans failed to prevent fire-fighting water and chemicals polluting the River Anker, killing 27,000 fish In April 2010 a large fire broke out at Abbey Metal’s Nuneaton metal finishing … Continue reading →

An overseas investment consortium has made an approach to buy Severn Trent water valued at around £5.3bn. The consortium is made up of Canada’s Borealis Infrastructure Management Inc., the Kuwait Investment Office and Universities Superannuation Scheme Ltd.  Reports have claimed … Continue reading →

Food supplier Moy Park has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay costs of £42,500 after being found guilty of breaching its environmental permit and allowing nauseous odours to be released from one of its poultry farms In a nine-day … Continue reading →

The GHG Protocol has published free guidance for businesses on how to calculate greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions from across their value chains. The GHG Protocol, which published an international standard for assessing scope 3 emissions in 2011, has now launched accompanying … Continue reading →

ISO 14001 is the most internationally recognised environmental management system standard, with over 267,000 certified organisations in 158 countries. The Standard sets out a framework for identifying environmental aspects and legal requirements, setting goals, developing operational controls and monitoring to … Continue reading →

China’s workplace death rate is many times higher than those of other developed countries, says the China Labour Bulletin (CLB). In the United Kingdom, for example, there were 173 worker fatalities between April 2011 and March 2012 (2012/13 data is … Continue reading →