Guide to Lay-offs and Short-time working

While this procedure was well understood, particularly in the North of the country, 20 years ago many businesses in the South are unaware that it could help both them and their employees when things are particularly tough.

This Guide from ACAS explains the procedures.

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Health and Wellbeing in the work place

We tend to think of the rules imposed by govenment as just another piece of business regulation that loads more cost on us.

Howver, approached in a positive way attending to the issues raised in this booklet can make a positive impact on productivity and profit as well as improving morale and building loyalty.

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Healthy High Street? -A health check for high streets and town centres.

Helps to identify early warning signs of potential decline in high streets and town centres, and provides advice on steps to take to avert it.

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Five steps to risk assessment

Every Company employing 5 or more people is required by law to have a written health and safety policy.

This leaflet provides simple guidance for creating such a policy.

From the Health and Safety Executive

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An Introduction to health and Safety

A more comprhensive guide than the leaflet above. 

Health and Safety law is far less onerous than many would have you believe. It is almost always common sense and where we hear the more stupid examples they are almost invariable the result of an over-zealous official or other authority interpreting them in a particularly stupid way.

Read this and then apply the rules with commonsense (and a little bit of thought) and your employees will be safer, healthier and happier and you are unlikely to fall foul of the law even if an accident does occur.

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