A Darlington engineering firm was today fined after a delivery driver was seriously injured

The UK’s biggest coal mining firm has admitted health and safety offences.

Surprise safety checks are taking place on building sites across Britain.

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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has today announced that its cost recovery scheme..

Nestlé has been ordered to pay more than £221,000 in fines and costs after a worker was crushed to death inside a conveyor-type machine.

Worker suffered two broken legs when a 22-tonne excavator reversed over him at a building site

Failure of a cement barrier in the production casing string was identified as a central cause of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to the Report Regarding the Cause of the April 20, 2010 Macondo Well Blowout released by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement in September 2011.

When liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is stored and used in installations compliant with relevant health and safety legislation and industry codes of practice, it is a safe fuel. However, when it is not the results can be catastrophic. In May 2004 a gas leak from a corroded buried pipe led to an accumulation of gas in the basement of a Glasgow plastics factory. This resulted in an explosion which caused the building to collapse – nine people were killed and 33 were injured, some critically.