15 August 2022
Launching the latest stage of its “Making Recruitment Safer” campaign, the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) explained that it was aimed at the early years and education sector and highlighted the range of free advice and training available to organisations of all sizes.
15 August 2022
Two months of stronger growth in goods exports came to a halt in June as overseas sales fell and the trade deficit widened according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
15 August 2022
Businesses across parts of the South and East of England are facing possible water restrictions as drought orders are officially declared across eight areas.
15 August 2022
According to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), more leaseholders in high-rise homes will be spared unfair bills for building safety costs as the Government’s £4.5 billion Building Safety Fund (BSF) has reopened for new applications.
15 August 2022
The persistent, bioaccumulation and toxicity (PBT) properties of long chain chlorinated paraffins (LCCPs) are of increasing international environmental concern.
15 August 2022
New guidance and various amendments to existing guidance on the regulation of F-gases in GB has been published.
15 August 2022
B&M Retail Ltd and Daker Ltd, an electrical contracting company, have been fined after an electrician suffered serious burns to 15% of his body when he was caught in an explosion at a warehouse in Liverpool.
15 August 2022
Cleveland Potash Ltd, which extracts organic fertiliser known as Polyhalite, has been fined after two electricians suffered severe burns in separate incidents.
12 August 2022
New research by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) reveals that one in five key worker households have children living in poverty.
12 August 2022
We reported recently on the Government’s decision to reject recommendations by a leading Parliamentary committee with regard to setting a deadline to remove all asbestos from public and commercial buildings (see MPs call for more action on asbestos management).