Case
Ignoring health and safety advice led to
A fast food packaging firm has been fined £28,000 and costs of £7,500 after ignoring advice from its health and safety enforcement authority.
TJ’s Fast Food Ltd pleaded guilty t... | case | 16 Aug 2006 12:00AM
Dry cleaner fined
Dry cleaning company Johnsons Apparelmaster Ltd of Leigh-on-Sea was yesterday fined £12,000 and ordered to pay £2,617 costs after admitting polluting a stream.
Waste oils, containing a... | case | 21 Jun 2005 12:00AM
£90,000 liability after 9,000-litre oil spill
Dewhirst Ladiesware Limited was fined £2,000 after pleading guilty to causing fuel oil to enter the Nant Arw and the Fferws Brook, contrary to Section 85(1) of the Water Resources Act 1991.
The... | case | 21 Feb 2005 3:47PM
BP fined £200,000 after gas escape on oil rig
BP has been fined £200,000 after a dangerous gas escape on a North Sea oil rig two years ago, reports the BBC. BP pleaded guilty to endangering the health and safety of workers, after more than a ... | case | 23 Nov 2004 11:00AM
Network news
Workplace Law FM Conference - Buncefield
The Buncefield oil storage depot explosion in December 2005 resulted in 40 casualties, damage to residential and commercial premises nearby, and significant environmental pollution.
Today (31 J... | network news | 31 Jan 2007 12:00AM
News
Glasgow factory explosion: companies fined
The operators of the Glasgow factory that exploded in 2004, killing nine and injuring more than 30 others, have been fined £400,000 for health and safety breaches.
The penalty was imposed o... | news | 28 Aug 2007 12:00AM
Record
Utility firm Transco has been fined a sum of £15m - the highest ever in the UK - for its failure to maintain a leaking gas main which resulted in a fatal explosion.
The case concerns the de... | news | 26 Aug 2005 12:00AM
Government to make it easier for businesses to go green
The government has undertaken to change planning rules and make it easier for retail, office and leisure businesses to install green technologies such as solar panels and wind turbines.
Communi... | news | 14 Aug 2007 12:00AM
Consultation launched on dangerous liquids
A consultation on a new policy to improve the way dangerous liquids are stored has been launched today (28 June). The consultation is backed by the Competent Authority (CA), which is comprised of t... | news | 28 Jun 2007 12:00AM
Buncefield investigation: fuel storage design and operation recommendations published
Today (29 March) the Buncefield Major Incident Investigation Board (MIIB) has published recommendations on the design and operation of fuel storage sites.
This is the MIIB’s 5th report into... | news | 29 Mar 2007 12:00AM
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