The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) has reiterated advice that farmers should not enter slurry tanks, following the deaths of Ulster rugby player Nevin Spence, aged 22, his brother Graham, aged 30, and 58-year-old father Noel, after being overcome by poisonous fumes from an underground slurry tank at the family farm in Co Down last Saturday.

The number of workplace injuries in the North has fallen by 20% in the past five years, it was revealed today.

HEALTH and safety enforcement agencies have warned that work will be halted on building sites with poor safety standards.