Search Results for: Environmental health

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMMERCIAL ferry is being fitted with optical sensors by two universities to conduct an environmental survey of the surface of the Irish Sea, which will provide comprehensive data to improve the management of its ecosystems.

The University of Wales’ School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor, and the National University of Ireland are using Irish Ferries’ Ulysses for the experiment.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has lent Euro 30 million to Frantschach Swiecie SA, Poland’s second largest pulp and paper producer, so it can modernise its combined heat and power plant, supplying steam and electricity. The money will help it construct a new fluidised bed boiler, which will use biomass and coal as a fuel, overhaul existing coal-fired boilers and upgrade other electricity generating equipment.…

BY MARK ROWE
SAND quarrying in Indonesia has been suspended for two months amidst claims by mining companies that they cannot afford new taxes and royalties imposed by the central government; investors have also blamed complicated licensing procedures designed to reduce smuggling.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA and KEITH NUTHALL
THE GOVERNMENT of Sri Lanka is embarking on a comprehensive survey of the country’s clay resources as demand grows thanks to an official policy of promoting a home-grown ceramics industry, which is already the largest mineral-based sector in this south Asian country.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE FINAL round of negotiations leading to a UN Framework Convention on Tobacco Control at the World Health Organisation will begin in February 2003 with many issues still outstanding, including the all-important question of advertising. It became clear at the fifth round, which ended in October, that the US and the EU are still far apart on the question of tobacco advertising.…

Keith Nuthall
THE HIGH risk of healthcare workers worldwide becoming victims of violence has sparked four international organisations into drawing up guidelines advising managers on how to reduce the exposure of their staff to physical attack or threats.

These draft Framework Guidelines for addressing Workplace Violence in the Health Sector are being produced by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the World Health Organisation (WHO), Public Services International (PSI) and the International Council of Nurses (ICN).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT might seem a long way from South Hams District Council’s public tendering process to world trade negotiations in Geneva, but thanks to the globalisation process that upsets so many protesters with metal rods stuck through their noses, the two are actually closely related.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMMERCIAL ferry is being fitted with optical sensors by two universities to conduct an environmental survey of the surface of the Irish Sea, which will provide comprehensive data to improve the management of its ecosystems.

The University of Wales’ School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor, and the National University of Ireland are using Irish Ferries’ Ulysses for the experiment.…

BY MARK ROWE
FAST food outlets in Taipei have started providing information about the nutritional value of the food they serve up as part of the city’s drive to slim down and get healthy. McDonald’s, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Asian chains Mos Burger and Yoshinoya started providing details of the calories, protein, fat and sugar contained in their food as a result of rules introduced by Taipei city health director Chiu Shu-ti.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN smokers switch from regular cigarettes to lighter versions because they think milder brands are less damaging according to Health Canada survey. The poll conducted on 1,200 smokers in January 2002, said 24 per cent of smokers switched because they are less harsh, 21 per cent because they taste better, 18 per cent because of health reasons, 14 per cent as a step toward quitting and 12 per cent because they contain less tar and nicotine.…