Highways for England have recently annouced that from 1 January 2017 that where a Highways for England construction/maintenance site defines hard hat colours they should align with the BuildUK standard: Black: Site Supervisors Orange: Slinger/signaller […]
A mechanism for monitoring potential emerging contaminants which may pose a risk to the water environment was established when the Directive on Environmental Quality Standards was updated in 2013. The first watch list was adopted […]
Whilst the title above reflects the main thrust of this public consultation it has actually been published under the title of “Improving the use of planning conditions”. Given that there is always the potential for […]
#AntibioticGuardian was a UK government campaign to increase our awareness of the risk posed to modern medicine by the increasing occurrence of bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics. With the recent BBC1 showing of […]
The Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE) has just published an updated review of the incidence of childhood leukaemia and other cancers around the Sellafield and Dounreay nuclear installations. COMARE were […]