Building a third Heathrow airport runway seems to fly in the face of the UK’s ambitious new net-zero by 2050 emission policy. But the Government is also planning a radical overhaul of aviation. Coupled with new technologies will this make flight sustainable? Jon Herbert reports. Twenty-nine years ago it was first suggested that the UK’s   Read More …

Despite their much-improved plateau of recent years, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) continues to work hard with businesses and industry to reduce deaths from workplace injuries and industrial diseases even further. However, Jon Herbert finds provisional 2017–18 figures emphasise some areas where employees are at particular risk. Provisional HSE statistics of 144 industrial fatalities   Read More …