2020 / 2021 Edition
Safety, Health & Environment
Five quarries in Essex have been awarded Gold certificates in Essex County Council's 1999 Site Awards Scheme, which recognises operators who meet neighbourly environmental standards.
Three Pioneer UK quarries have won the Group's 1999 International Directors' Award for Best Environmental Performance.
Lafarge Redland Aggregates are proposing to create nearly 100ha of much needed, scarce wildlife habitat in the Medway Valley.
A new national geological conservation movement has been formed following a three-day conference attended by 30 regional RIGS (regionally important geological and geomorphological sites) groups....
MILIEUTECH plc, the Oxfordshire-based environmental consultancy, are to hold a series of seminars and workshops to explain the ramifications of the EU's Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control...
HANSON Quarry Products Europe have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with English Nature which will protect and bring benefits to over 40 wildlife sites and Sites of Special Scientific Interest...
HANSON Aggregates' Trusham Quarry in south Devon has won one of the top accolades in this year's Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' awards.
THE Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents is currently seeking entries from the mining and quarrying sector for its Awards 2000 programme, which highlights safety in the workplace.