A new study released in the American Journal of Medicine has shown that workers involved in the large scale clean-up of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are at greater risk of succumbing to cancer, leukaemia, and a whole raft...
A task force, known as the Pacific Sates/British Columbia Oil Spill Task Force, comprising of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California and Hawaii, are meeting in Seattle this week to consider emerging issues in energy and the best methods for...
According to the 2011/12 Labour Force Survey conducted by the Health and Safety Executive, “falls, slips and trips made up over half of all reported major injuries and almost a third of over 3-day injuries to employees”. Slips and trips...
Since the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill chemical dispersants have been the staple of oil remediation and were used widely in the BP Deepwater Horizon Spill in 2010. Their use has now come under scrutiny amid growing concerns over the...
Spills of oils, fuels, chemicals and many other industrial fluids are an inevitable occurrence across warehouses and workplaces in the UK. However, the long-term effects of any spill will be largely determined by the preparedness of the first responders to...
Why do people buy Spill kits? Because the Health and Safety Manager tells them to do so? Because it is part of their quality standards? Because of a management commitment to protecting the environment?Or do they identify potential spill risks...
On 15th May, the eight members of the Arctic Council, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the US, signed a new legally binding oil spill response accord, Marine Oil Pollution Preparedness and Response agreement, that will attempt to...
By sticking to a few common sense rules when managing wheelie bins on your premises will aid you in keeping your waste disposal legal, efficient and will allow you to better avoid water, air or soil pollution. Following basic protocols...
In the last two weeks three separate companies and institutions have been prosecuted by the Environment Agency for committing pollution offences that resulted in three rivers becoming contaminated. This article will look at one the incidents separately and assess how...
