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The health and safety of workers can be affected during maintenance as can a lack of maintenance or inadequate maintenance Maintenance is not the exclusive domain of fitters and mechanics. It is also the responsibility of almost all workers in every sector and is carried out in almost every working environment, says the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (http://osha.europa.eu) in its e-facts series.

The 19th book in a series putting the spotlight on conservation issues has just been published Abook on marine ecosystems conservation is the latest in a series of conservation-based books developed over the last 19 years. Since 1993 building materials company CEMEX UK, has, in partnership with not-for-profit organisations, published a new book every year to put the spotlight on different conservation issues.
Now the company and Conservation International Europe have presented their book, Oceans: Heart of

Material left over from County Cornwall’s china clay quarrying is being recycled into useful material
High performance plant supplied by Finlay Plant SW to Kendall Plant is enabling large volumes of high grade, recycled material to be processed, in the heartlands of Cornwall’s china clay quarrying industry. Machinery including the Terex Finlay J-1175 jaw crusher, C-1540 RS cone crusher and Supertrak 694+ tracked mobile screen is being used by Kendall Plant in the ‘White Mountains’ region of the south-west

Asphalt made partly from recycled waste tyres has been successfully used on a road in Scotland As supplies of raw materials are not finite, breathing new life into old materials through recycling is becoming big business. Most materials can be recycled, and the first major UK trial of new asphalt made partly from recycled waste tyres has been successfully completed on behalf of Transport Scotland by Breedon Aggregates.
A short stretch of the A90 dual carriageway between Perth and Dundee was resurfaced with

Airport construction and expansion is required to cater for more passengers and larger planes. Patrick Smith reports VolkerFitzpatrick and Colas were recently named as preferred joint venture contractors for two major construction projects worth £65 million (€83 million). The jv picked up the runway extension at Birmingham International Airport, England, and the nearby A45 transport corridor improvement schemes following a competitive tender process run by Birmingham City Council. The two projects are being

Data protection is an issue the industry ignores at its peril, warns UK intellectual property lawyer Ben Travers The aggregates industry is no stranger to regulation. From issues surrounding health and safety to sustainability and emissions, it seems that the industry is never far from scrutiny. Yet one aspect of regulation which is overlooked with alarming regularity is the protection of personal data.

A real-time, ‘human in the loop’ system to simulate future technology and understand operator behavior is being developed in Korea As technology gets ever more complex, it is becoming more expensive to build prototype machines, which takes a long time and commits a lot of resources. If the prototype is not effective work has to start all over again, and because of this it is becoming increasingly important to shorten the development cycle and use computers to carry out as much virtual testing and simulation