All Safety/HSE
Oil storage firm fined £100k after chemical explosion
Added: 26 Sep 2017
Oil storage firm ESL Fuels has been fined £100,000 after contractors cut into a sealed pipe causing…
Stamps honour legendary safety engineer John C Taylor’s inventions
Added: 19 Sep 2017
The inventor of the kettle switch used a billion times a day worldwide has been honoured with a ser…
Decontamination equipment: the importance of staff training
Added: 18 Sep 2017
You can’t handle hazardous materials without the right tools but managers need to ensure the people…
Sellafield GMB members set strike date for 27 September
Added: 12 Sep 2017
Sellafield nuclear site's 3,000 GMB union members have announced their 24 hour strike action will b…
GMB members vote for Sellafield strike action
Added: 4 Sep 2017
More than three quarters of GMB members employed at the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria have vot…
Sellafield scoops nine industry awards for ‘unrelenting focus on safety’
Added: 25 Aug 2017
Sellafield nuclear facility has been awarded nine safety gongs by the Royal Society for the Prevent…
Amec Foster Wheeler secures key nuclear waste contracts worth £4 million
Added: 23 Aug 2017
Amec Foster Wheeler has won two contracts worth £4 million from LLW Repository, the company respons…
Tata Steel incurs £1m penalty after toxic substances release
Added: 14 Aug 2017
Tata Steel UK has incurred a £1 million fine following an incident in which toxic and flammable sub…
Lawrence Waterman succeeds Lynda Armstrong as British Safety Council chairman
Added: 7 Aug 2017
Lawrence Waterman has been appointed as the new chairman of the British Safety Council, following L…
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…
