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The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has joined with industry partners to clean up chemicals used in consumer products.

According to a new CBI survey, current social distancing guidelines mean only two-thirds (68%) of staff can physically work on premises and firms are operating at 81% of pre-pandemic capacity.

Focusing on the ways science and evidence is being used to prevent death, injury and ill-health in Great Britain’s workplace, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published its Annual Science Review 2021.

Eurostat data has found that between 2013 and 2018, the index for the total number of people recognised as having an occupational disease declined by 14% across the EU (including the UK data for that period, but excluding Germany, Greece and Portugal).

Spain, Malta and Romania have confirmed that they are accepting notification through the ECHA harmonised portal.

An MOT centre has been sentenced after supplying incorrectly labelled oil drums which subsequently exploded and killed an agricultural engineer during a hot work process.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have opened the process for Accredited Stakeholder Organisation applications.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is seeking comments on draft Stockholm Convention proposals for three chemical substances.

Authorisation 970 and Authorisation 971 have been revoked now that the Scottish Qualifications Agency (SQA) are able to access their office to resume business critical activities, for example, the production and printing of certificates.

Enviraz (Scotland) Ltd, an asbestos removal contractor, has been fined after one worker was fatally injured and another seriously injured in a gas explosion.