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SHE News & Articles
Hanson Aggregates celebrated National Tree Week by inviting local schoolchildren to help plant trees and shrubs at their Tytherington Quarry in Gloucestershire.
The results of a project by woodwork students from Cheadle High School were unveiled when they visited Tarmac’s Croxden Quarry recently.
"Following successful trials, Burlington Slate Ltd have purchased two Brigade bbs-tek reversing alarms for use on their wheel loaders."
Use of a fiscal instrument to bring about the best practicable environmental option
THE average fine for health and safety cases across Great Britain increased by 39% in 2001/02, according to the Health & Safety Executive’s recently published Offences and Penalties Report for...
THE Quarry Products Association has widened its commitment to the restoration of quarries in the UK with the launch of a comprehensive new fail-safe guarantee.
FIGURES released by the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) have revealed that quarrying is the most high-risk and dangerous occupation in Ireland.
TARMAC are urging their employees to follow the ‘Golden Rules’ –– a major new health and safety initiative that is currently being rolled out across the whole group.
SCIENTISTS are describing the remains of a woolly rhinoceros found at Lafarge Aggregates’ sand and gravel quarry at Whitemoor Haye, near Alrewas, Staffordshire, as a major archaeological discovery...
Environmental Simulations International Ltd, the independent UK consultancy specialising in soil and groundwater problems, have opened their first full European subsidiary, ESI Italia, in Milan....
RMC’s international aggregates businesses are half-way through a 4–5-year energy efficiency campaign, which is now showing early positive results.
Working with Action Energy to improve energy efficiency
An unlikely environmental hero is helping strike a balance between the needs of local people, wildlife and his employer at a Nottinghamshire quarry. Mike Walter reports
THE announcement of a £1.5 million injection into the Sustainable Action Fund for local environmental improvements in Scotland has been welcomed by the Quarry Products Association, which has...