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Laws governing safety-incident reporting and lifting operations could be shaken up as part of a government mission to cut red tape and boost economic activity. The Treasury said consultations would be held over potential alterations to the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 2013 and the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations

In Brief Posted: 1:22 PM PST · February 22, 2025 Image Credits:Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a fledgling AI safety organization. Axios reported this week that the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) and

The U.K. government wants to make a hard pivot into boosting its economy and industry with AI, and as part of that, it’s pivoting an institution that it founded a little over a year ago for a very different purpose. Today the Department of Science, Industry and Technology announced that it would be renaming the

Crest Nicholson has plunged to a sizeable pre-tax loss in its latest results after allocating more than £130m extra for fire remediation works. The housebuilding giant’s pre-tax profit plummeted from £23.1m in its previous financial year to a loss of £143.7m for the year to 31 October 2024. It made an exceptional charge of £166.1m

A failure to look beyond historical statistics on construction product safety when regulating the market could lead to an “accumulation of deaths”, the government has been warned. A report commissioned by the Office for Product Safety and Standards, published on Monday (20 January), says that relying solely on incident data could produce “unacceptable” outcomes. The

New Orleans Saints S J.T. Gray was named to Pro Football Focus’ 2024 NFL All-Pro Team. When the Saints signed a once-overlooked UDFA defensive back out of Mississippi State in 2018, I doubt they realized the hidden gem they had found. Gray has been one of the few bright spots in New Orleans over the

Fifty years after the Health and Safety Executive was created, is it still fit for purpose today? When a pile of coal waste crashed down a hill onto a school and row of houses killing 116 children and 28 adults at Aberfan in October 1966, no one was prosecuted. Industrial safety at the time was