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A major Edinburgh-based construction firm has won this year’s RoSPA Scotland Trophy in recognition of its work to prevent accidents and ill health.
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is making changes to the first aid at work (FAW) training regime to make it more flexible – saving businesses time and money without compromising health and safety.
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A council has insisted it acted as quickly as it could to close a popular animal petting farm linked to an E. coli outbreak, which has hospitalised 13 children.
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BUSINESSES across Wales are being asked to commit to better safety practices under a strategy published by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning companies of the importance of implementing safe systems for lifting loads and using suitable lifting equipment for the job. It follows the prosecution of a Birmingham company after an incident in which a worker was seriously injured.
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Fredrik Sundstrom, of the Department of Zoology, said the ability of transgenic fish to be more resistant to environmental toxins could entail the greater accumulation of toxins that “ultimately end up in consumers”.
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The Food Standards Agency has defended its advice to parents over what to include in their children’s lunchboxes after a health charity warned that ham, salami and other processed meats posed a significant cancer risk.
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A man has been fined £3,000 for carrying out illegal slaughter for halal meat in filthy premises in south London.
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned employers of the need to put proper risk assessment and safety procedures in place when conducting work with asbestos.
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Wrexham Council EHOs are investigating four cases of E. coli 0157 poisoning after a woman and a three-year-old girl were hospitalised last week.
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