Midlands manufacturers are facing up to an intensified focus on the elimination of harmful dust and fumes at work, and health and safety specialists at EEFWest Midlands have devised a seminar to explain what is expected of them.

By Anonymous Halfen's highly successful White Paper on Avoiding Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS) when fixing to concrete has been updated to include recent legislation concerning noise and dust.

By Colin Brown Gordon Brown has ordered an independent inquiry into growing suspicions that a virus may have escaped from a private science laboratory that led to the foot-and-mouth outbreak .

A CITY has been designated a Safer Working Community.It follows a week-long campaign in York last month to raise awareness of health and safety issues by the local environmental health team and the Health and Safety Executive. That was combined with inspections of premises.

A MINER has been killed in an incident at a north Warwickshire coal mine. The 45-year-old sustained fatal head injuries at Daw Mill Colliery in Arley at 2 am on Sunday. The man, who comes from Swadlincote in Derbyshire, was declared dead at the scene by paramedics.