2020 / 2021 Edition
Safety, Health & Environment
Lafarge Redland Aggregates have restored two former quarries on the Anglesey heritage coastline.
Spillard Safety Systems have recently introduced the Sears Seating range of products. The seats, manufactured in South Wales, can be customized to fit any application.
Staff at Aggregate Industries' Croft Quarry in Leicestershire are helping to create a new woodland wildlife habitat with the planting of 2,000 trees.
Tarmac and the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) have launched the Bird Challenge for Business 2000, a year-long campaign aimed at recognizing the conservation achievements of British businesses...
ROTHERHAM Sand and Gravel, one of the Quarry Products Association's smaller members, recently achieved ISO 14001 accreditation.
Health and safety training specialists Instant Training have developed a unique EPIC-approved training programme for Tarmac Quarry Products, the first in Europe to cover all elements of working at...
The Health and Safety Authority of the Republic of Ireland is advising all quarry operators and vehicle suppliers that it intends to hold a concentrated series of inspections during 12-16 June...
Vision Techniques have introduced a temporary reversing aid system which offers a low-cost mobile CCTV solution to the problem of meeting legislation requirements for quarry plant and equipment....
PPE specialists Protector Technologies have launched a new safety helmet specifically designed for use in the most arduous environments.
On 24 March 2000 David Woodhall of the Countryside Agency presented the 1999 QPA Restoration Awards at a special ceremony in London.
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....