All Safety/HSE
US winery calls on Edinburgh Sensors to monitor carbon dioxide levels
Added: 7 Aug 2017
The Louis M. Martini Winery in St Helena, California is one of the original five Napa Valley wineri…
Viewpoint: how automation is tackling plant safety
Added: 1 Aug 2017
EU Automation’s Jonathan Wilkins discusses how new technology and increased automation improves saf…
Dust unsettled: combating a danger to health and efficiency in the workplace
Added: 1 Aug 2017
Dust and fumes are the enemy of process-based operations – airborne contaminants present both a hea…
Reduced demand prompts closure of Staffordshire’s council-run laboratory
Added: 31 Jul 2017
One of the last local authority-run laboratories in England is to be closed with the loss of 16 pos…
UK offshore oil and gas safety record improving says report
Added: 27 Jul 2017
The UK’s offshore oil and gas industry has reported its lowest ever incidence of so-called ‘dangero…
Water treatment firm hit with fine after worker fall
Added: 27 Jul 2017
Icon Process Systems, which manufactures water treatment systems, has been fined after an employee …
OPITO confirms McDonald as chief executive officer
Added: 13 Jul 2017
OPITO, the international workforce, safety and standards organisation for oil and gas, has appointe…
Better leadership needed to avert Buncefield-style disasters, warns ABB
Added: 10 Jul 2017
Better leadership is needed in the process industries to avoid repetition of accidents on the scale…
Sellafield firefighters to strike over pay dispute
Added: 7 Jul 2017
Firefighters at Sellafield nuclear facility will strike later this month after “last ditch” talks o…
Warburtons slapped with £1.9m fine after man trapped in bread machine
Added: 4 Jul 2017
Baking company Warburtons has been handed a £1.9 million fine after a worker got his arm trapped ag…
Steel firm hit with £1m fine after man injured in explosion
Added: 29 Jun 2017
Steel manufacturer Sheffield Forgemasters Engineering has been handed a £1 million fine after an ox…
GMB in ‘last ditch’ talks to avoid Sellafield firefighters strike
Added: 27 Jun 2017
Firefighters at Sellafield nuclear facility have threatened a series of strikes in July unless a di…
Viewpoint: it’s not only the Machine Directive to which you need to adhere
Added: 27 Jun 2017
TUV SUD’s Neil Dyson takes a view on the legislative framework
within which machinery safety sits.
On guard: how crucial risk assessment is to machine safety
Added: 27 Jun 2017
Risk assessment is as vital as it ever was in maintaining machine safety, writes Greg Pitcher.
NAO Hinkley report criticises government nuclear strategy
Added: 23 Jun 2017
The National Audit Office has made damning criticism of the government’s strategy for the Hinkley P…
UKOOG – Government must act to protect gas reserves
Added: 22 Jun 2017
The UK will become increasingly reliant upon imported gas if it does not embark on a strategy to bo…
Industry leaders call for UK to lead on energy transition after Trump pull out
Added: 2 Jun 2017
Industry bodies reacted with dismay to US president Donald Trump’s intention to withdraw his countr…
More than £0.3 mill in R&D on offer to engineering innovators
Added: 30 May 2017
Seven engineering innovators will have the chance to share £350,000 of R&D support in a competition…
BPE chief Shott wins top UK engineering prize
Added: 24 May 2017
Ian Shott, chairman of pharmaceutical and fine chemical sector consultancy BPE, has been awarded on…
Graphene breakthrough could massively cut nuclear energy costs
Added: 9 May 2017
Manchester University researchers are claiming a breakthrough that could reduce the CO2 emissions a…
