Environment

Norfolk-based Swallowtail Print has been fined after a member of staff almost severed his index finger in an unguarded machine.

Women need work and work needs women, concludes a report from a government-backed industry group that coincides with a new print initiative prompted by the same sentiment.

The government has called time on free support for employment tribunals, claiming that the taxpayer shouldn't bear the cost. But the unions see this as a return to Victorian times for the workers.

Print industry leaders have welcomed a commitment from the Chief Fire Officers Association (CFOA) to work with businesses to improve how fire safety regulations are enforced.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is to publish online a series of findings detailing noise exposure levels and their implications across the print industry.

A Spanish appeals court has backed an earlier ruling that claims of patent infringement brought against Cretaprint are meritless.

CWU reps are to decide next week if they should ballot Royal Mail workers on a national strike, in a move that will inevitably raise tensions at ongoing negotiations with the postal operator.

A new ISO standard has mapped out a common method for calculating the carbon footprint of printed products.

There's little doubt that Royal Mail bosses welcome the government's long-awaited pledge to privatise the group, but for some in the print industry, it's a poison pen letter, tainted with the threat...

Retiring to the Costa Blanca, becoming a golf pro, turning a small back lawn into a veritable Kew Gardens. All visions that have for most people of late, begun to seem rather distant and ambitious...