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29/02/2012 - Arm injury results in £15,000 fine - A firm has received a £15,000 fine after an employee severely injured his arm while feeding metal sheeting through a machine.
29/02/2012 - Gas explosion burned two workers - A gas supply firm has been given a £22,500 fine after an explosion, powerful enough to raise the roof of the building, resulted in two employees suffering multiple burns.
28/02/2012 - 248 arrested in licensing crackdown - A crackdown on the breaking of licensing laws in London saw 248 arrests in one night.
28/02/2012 - Fake gas man jailed for six months - A man has been jailed for illegally carrying out domestic gas work after lying to homeowners that he was accredited and using a fake registration number and certificate.
27/02/2012 - Fingertip sliced off by faulty saw - A West Midlands factory worker lost a fingertip due to inadequate safety provisions at his place of work, including the failure of an emergency stop button on a circular saw, a court has been told.
27/02/2012 - Fence firm fined over worker injury - A fencing manufacturer has been hit with a £12,000 fine after an employee had an elbow dislocated and his arm fractured at a factory in Sheffield.
24/02/2012 - Restaurants failing during downturn - Restaurants are feeling the pinch of the tough financial climate with 194 of them becoming insolvent in the last three months of 2011, an increase of almost a third on the previous year.
24/02/2012 - Gas explosion leads to £22k fine - A managing director has been fined more than £22,000 over an explosion which lifted a roof and left him and another worker with multiple burns.
23/02/2012 - Landlord prosecuted over gas safety - A landlord has been prosecuted after failing to maintain a gas boiler at a student flat.
23/02/2012 - Sightseeing tour bus firm fined - A sightseeing tour bus company has been fined over £10,000 after an employee had his pelvis and several ribs broken while repairing one of the buses.
22/02/2012 - Bookmakers held up at gunpoint - A bookmakers in West Lothian was held up at gunpoint by a masked robber who ran off with more than £100 from the till, it has been revealed.
22/02/2012 - Damages given to asbestos sufferer - A 92-year-old former miner who has asbestos-related cancer has been awarded £50,000 in compensation by the High Court.
21/02/2012 - Cross-eyed riots arsonist jailed - A 23-year-old man who caused more than £1 million worth of damage during last year's riots has been sentenced to eight years in jail.
21/02/2012 - Rock breaks windscreen on busy road - A windscreen of a van was smashed after a stone thrown from an overpass crashed onto the vehicle, narrowly avoiding serious injury to the driver.
20/02/2012 - More holidaymakers choose Inverness - More people are heading north for their holidays, figures show, as Inverness has posted an "astonishing" rise in the number of people booking hotel stays in the city.
20/02/2012 - Yob culture costs businesses £9.8bn - Petty theft, broken windows and graffiti costs every business in the country an average of £4,000.
17/02/2012 - Beware metal thieves targeting vans - Motorists should be vigilant against criminals after a spate of metal thefts, police have warned.
17/02/2012 - Man faces restaurant assault charge - A man has appeared in court over an incident at a Glasgow restaurant that led to a stand-off with police and a bomb disposal unit being called.
16/02/2012 - Worker's arm impaled by machine - A Welsh company has been fined £10,000 after a worker was seriously injured while operating machinery.
16/02/2012 - Worker falls through dairy roof - A Cornwall dairy has been fined after a court ruled the company used inadequate roofing which caused a worker to fall through and sustain severe injuries.
15/02/2012 - Two firms fined over crane fault - An incident at Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire has led to two companies being fined £13,300 each and ordered to pay the case's legal costs.
15/02/2012 - Firms 'could save by switching off' - Research has suggested that companies could save more than £1,000 a year on electricity bills by switching off lights and other things when leaving the office.
14/02/2012 - Men in court over ELO member death - Two Devon farm workers are set to stand trial after their alleged breach of health and safety laws was linked to the death of a pop group's founder member.
14/02/2012 - Course to set development standard - The British Council of Offices (BCO) has launched an online accreditation course aimed at setting the standard for office development across the UK.
13/02/2012 - HMRC campaign to target tax cheats - HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has announced an initiative to track down tax cheats working in the building and construction industries.
13/02/2012 - Railcare fined over worker's death - Glasgow Sheriff Court has fined a company £133,000 after one of its employees died from head injuries while carrying out maintenance work.
10/02/2012 - Welsh inn named pub of the year - Real ale campaign group Camra has named a small village inn in Wales as the winner of its pub of the year award.
10/02/2012 - Woman's dress set ablaze in pub - A hen party in London has ended in hospital after a woman's home-made wedding dress was set alight.
09/02/2012 - TV Chef's kitchen catches fire - Emergency services were called to the headquarters of TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall after a serious fire set his property alight.
09/02/2012 - Pub demolition man's asbestos fine - A partner at a development company failed to carry out an asbestos assessment or fence off a pub before the building was demolished, a court has heard.
08/02/2012 - O2 tests Olympics contingency plan - Mobile phone company O2 is trialling its contingency plan for flexible working during the Olympics.
08/02/2012 - Landlord failed to meet safety law - A landlord who failed to provide safety records for gas appliances has been fined for endangering the lives of his tenants.
07/02/2012 - One in seven UK shops 'vacant' - A new report has found that a total of 48,000 town centre shops stood empty last year.
07/02/2012 - Director fined over death at work - A company whose poor management of a construction site lead to the death of an employee, has been fined by the courts.
06/02/2012 - Horrific accident killed worker - A man died in a horrific accident in which his head became trapped in the jaws of a grab machine being used to move a pallet of cement bags.
06/02/2012 - Firm fined over window fall death - A care home company has been fined £66,000 after a resident with dementia fell from the window of his room.
03/02/2012 - Lack of planning caused injury - A boat building firm has been fined after a lack of planning was blamed for one of its employees getting injured during a move of offices.
03/02/2012 - Scaffolder badly injured in fall - A scaffolder was told he will never be able to work in construction after suffering serious injuries in a seven-metre fall through a roof in 2010.
02/02/2012 - Bungled gas repairs see firm fined - A pair of workers could have been killed or seriously injured when flames reaching nearly three metres shot out from a leaking gas pipe during bungled repair work.
02/02/2012 - Lorry driver death sees firm fined - The death of a lorry driver struck by a one-tonne pallet of sheet steel has led to a lift maker being fined £65,000 for breaching safety rules.
01/02/2012 - Dundee firms face heavy penalties - Three Scottish firms have been fined a combined total of £336,000 after a worker fell six metres through a roof light on to a concrete floor.
01/02/2012 - Factory fined over hand injury - A Milton Keynes-based manufacturer has been fined after an employee suffered severe hand injuries working on a bubble wrap making machine.