2020 / 2021 Edition
Safety, Health & Environment
Representatives from Lancashire County Council gathered at Back Lane Quarry, near Carnforth, recently to be presented with copies of ‘Natural Quarry’, new a publication commissioned by Aggregate...
PLANS to restore Hanson Aggregates’ Needingworth sand and gravel quarry, in Cambridgeshire, to a 700ha reed-bed wetland over the next 30 years have been given a top award by the Royal Town...
OVER the coming months quarry managers across the UK will be spearheading a major ‘Play Safe....Stay Safe’ campaign designed to warn children about the dangers of using quarries as playgrounds.
THE Health and Safety Commission has launched a consultation document on its proposal to introduce a compulsory duty for all companies and organizations to investigate all reportable work-related...
THE results of this year’s Quarry Products Association’s annual Environmental awards Scheme have revealed the best overall standard since the scheme began six years ago.
This year’s QPA Restoration Awards were presented by Robert Sturdey, MEP for the Eastern Region presented, at a ceremony held in London on 7 March.
Part of Hanson Bath & Portland Stone's Broadcroft Quarry on Portland has become a wetland reserve after clay was extracted from the quarry floor, exposing the natural water source and creating...
Hanson have handed over their Ribblehead Quarry in the Yorkshire Dales National Park to English Nature to create a nature reserve.
The remains of one of the earliest medieval watermills identified in England has been uncovered by a team of archaeologists working at Wellington Quarry in Herefordshire.
Thanks to Robert Brett & Son and the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme, the RSPB have recently completed the purchase of their newest nature reserve at Shorne Marshes near Gravesend.
RMC are donating land and, through the RMC Environment Fund, a cash grant in a move that will see the creation of one of the most extensive, best equipped and most ecologically diverse wildlife...
Turnkey Instruments, manufacturers of the Simret brake-testing range, have introduced the BrakeSafe brake tester.
COMPANIES, organizations and individuals must be held accountable for their health and safety performance - their professional reputation should depend on it.
THE Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents is calling for safety conscious companies and organizations to enter its 2001 Occupational Safety and Health Awards Scheme.
RMC Group plc have published their second UK Environment Report which highlights the progress made towards targets set for 2002.