newsRAIL INFRASTRUCTURE company, VolkerRail Ltd has been fined £550,000 after pleading guilty to an offence under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 after an investigation and prosecution by industry regulator the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).
newsA FATHER and daughter have received a suspended custodial sentence after a fire at their removals business in Evenwood near Bishop Auckland led to serious property damage and the evacuation of several neighbouring homes.
newsA CASE investigated by Thanet District Council’s Public Protection Team has been heard at the Folkestone Magistrates’ Court, relating to an incident where members of staff at Jewson Builders Merchants Yard in Margate were seriously injured. One employee received life-changing injuries while another received deep cuts and lacerations.
newsA YORKSHIRE property company has been fined £20,000 for failing to carry out safety and fire safety improvement works on a property in Kirkburn, Driffield after ignoring a number of requests to do so by housing officers.
newsTHE TUC and a group of MPs have warned that thousands of local authority buildings in England still contain asbestos.
newsTHE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) has agreed at its annual conference on 12 May to expand its work on the effects of fire contaminants – toxic substances produced by fires – on firefighters.
newsNETWORK RAIL has been fined £1.4 million for a health and safety breach after an investigation by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).
newsTHE ENVIRONMENT Agency has successfully prosecuted an illegal waste operator who used land near in Newark, Nottinghamshire, to burn waste in 2018.
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