Our Environmental, Safety & Health team is pleased to share with you the latest edition of our quarterly newsletter, frESH Law Horizons: Key Developments in UK & EU Environment, Safety and Health Law and Procedure; providing bite-size updates on EU and UK law, procedure and policy.
The updates covered in this quarter’s edition include (among others):
- Health and Safety Executive runs call for evidence on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in firefighting foams
- Supreme Court confirms environmental impact assessments should consider downstream greenhouse gas emissions of projects
- UK government publishes Sustainability Disclosure Requirements
- Extended producer responsibility – Draft legislation and updates to guidance on packaging data and what to collect
- Regulations on waste collections in force from end of June 2024
- EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive formally adopted
- Construction company fined £2,345,000 after worker drowned in river
- Company and director sentenced following workers exposure to asbestos
- Studies find most personal and protective equipment still fails basic safety and regulation criteria and does not fit women
- British Safety Council publishes article, “What did the 2019-2024 Parliament mean for workers’ health, safety, and wellbeing?”
- Indefinite extension of European Union conformity marking regime to Great Britain
- Food Standards Agency identifies likely source of the E. coli outbreak
- Office for Product Safety and Standards updates its enforcement policy
- Automated Vehicles Act 2024 receives royal assent
