All Safety/HSE


If you want to get ahead, be a chemical engineer…

Added: 15 Feb 2019

Chemical engineering provides a significant boost to social mobility, according to a survey of youn…

Ensuring your diesel-fuelled generators are compliant

Added: 13 Feb 2019

Emissions legislation doesn’t spell the end of the diesel-fuelled generator, says Jason Harryman of…

Do the maths: Fresh angles on the correct approach to explosion safety

Added: 13 Feb 2019

Fuel, oxygen and spark provide the means for fire in the workplace but attending to the basics – an…

Parliamentary water group chair calls for end to five-year focus

Added: 12 Feb 2019

The chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Water Group has criticised the focus on five-year plans, s…

Pump choice enables a tougher approach to waste processing

Added: 11 Feb 2019

When recycling rules got more demanding, one waste management firm decided on a tougher approach to…

Drax Power Plant

Minister hails Drax carbon capture breakthrough

Added: 11 Feb 2019

Energy minister Claire Perry said the new Drax Power station’s pilot bioenergy carbon capture and s…

British Safety Council awards 500-plus global winners

Added: 11 Feb 2019

More than 500 organisations worldwide have been honoured in the British Safety Council’s Internatio…

Revolutionary’s influence on UK manufacturing unbroken 140 years on

Added: 11 Feb 2019

The company which helped revolutionise manufacturing with the invention of the bush-roller chain th…

Landmark BPMA agreement with Lancaster University

Added: 7 Feb 2019

British Pump Manufacturers Association (BPMA) representatives have signed a co-operation agreement …

Disney safety chief will give memorial lecture at IChemE’s Hazards 29 conference

Added: 6 Feb 2019

Worldwide safety and health manager at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Mike Bell, will deliver the T…

Chester to offer UK’s first IChemE-accredited degree apprenticeship

Added: 1 Feb 2019

The University of Chester’s Faculty of Science and Engineering and major employers in the region ha…

Process industry lies at the heart of a leading UK attraction

Added: 1 Feb 2019

Pumps don’t only have to perform in plants and factories. Process sector work can be taking place i…

New chair launches fatberg fighters conference

Added: 31 Jan 2019

New chair of fatberg fighters’ organisation, the Grease Contractors Association, Lila Thompson has …

Conservation-focused project gives maximum effectiveness for minimum visibility

Added: 30 Jan 2019

Processing waste is hard enough when there is no mains sewerage available but what about when the p…

Wright appointment boosts distributor presence on BCAS board  

Added: 28 Jan 2019

Managing director of Thorite Stephen Wright has been elected to the board of trade association the …

Bradbury Group moves to £8million premises

Added: 28 Jan 2019

Manufacturing group Bradbury announced its move to new state of the art premises in Scunthorpe, Lin…

How collaboration can engage staff in making better safety choices

Added: 23 Jan 2019

Ensuring that workers are properly protected and fully engaged in safety procedures is a primary ob…

Tremors could be three times stronger before fracking halts, suggests study

Added: 23 Jan 2019

British Geological Society researchers have suggested that limits on seismic exploration on frackin…

Chemicals processing

Lords demand more from Whitehall on future of UK chemicals sector

Added: 22 Jan 2019

Peers have told the Government to provide further detail on its plans for safeguarding the UK chemi…

Research

UK invests a quarter billion in global research collaborations

Added: 22 Jan 2019

Science and universities minister Chris Skidmore has announced a slew of international research col…