What's New

The Government has updated its pollution prevention guidance to help businesses avoid harmful impacts to health and the environment.

The Department for Transport (DfT) has produced an explanatory video explaining the requirement for consignor only companies to appoint a dangerous good safety advisor no later than 31 December 2022.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published another batch of GB mandatory classification and labelling (GB MCL) technical reports and it is now available for download from the GB MCL publication table.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has published an impact assessment on changing the UK REACH submission deadlines.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has released two presentations on UK REACH restriction dossiers. Presentations on the lead in ammunition and tattoo inks and permanent make-up (PMU) have been created to help stakeholders understand them and respond to our ongoing public consultations.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has published their UK REACH Work Programme Priorities for 2022–23.

Cleveland Potash Ltd, which extracts organic fertiliser known as Polyhalite, has been fined after two electricians suffered severe burns in separate incidents.

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.

New guidance and various amendments to existing guidance on the regulation of F-gases in GB has been published.

The persistent, bioaccumulation and toxicity (PBT) properties of long chain chlorinated paraffins (LCCPs) are of increasing international environmental concern.