What's New

Valero Energy UK Ltd and B&A Contracts Ltd have been fined after an explosion killed four workers and seriously injured another at an oil refinery in Pembrokeshire in 2011.

Directive 2015/863, known as RoHS 3, adds four additional restricted substances (phthalates) to the list of six and comes into force on 22 July 2019.

The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted the directors of a waste services company and a company specialising in anaerobic digestion after complaints from the public in two separate cases.

A new Best Available Techniques (BAT) document has been released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development for preventing and controlling industrial pollution.

Multilateral Agreement M320 concerning the carriage of UN 1965 in fixed tanks (tank-vehicles) has been signed by Norway and Sweden.

Multilateral Agreement M318 concerning the carriage of pressure receptacles authorised by the United States of America Department of Transportation in relation to 1.1.4.2 has been signed by Ireland and Switzerland.

Multilateral Agreement M317 concerning the transport of solid medical or clinical waste, category A has been created and published by the Department for Transport.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published a list of Carriage of Dangerous Goods prohibition notices issued by the police, Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) or the Department for Transport for October 2018 through to January 2019.

The European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals (ECETOC) has published two more documents in its In a Nutshell series.

The OECD has published a document setting out its work on chemical safety and biosafety that lists OECD tools that can already be used to assist with safety and risk assessment.