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Signs of workplace stress
How to detect symptoms of stress in individuals and groups such as poor performance, tiredness and irritability and an increase in sick leave.
Stress management training and counselling
How courses in time management and other skills, promoting healthy living and counselling services may help employees manage their stress more effectively.
How to deal with stress
Putting the systems and policies in place to deal with the growing problem of stress in the workplace and prevent sickness absence and productivity issues.
Types of PPE: hand and arm protection
Choosing protection for the arms and hands, such as gloves, cuffs and elbow protectors to protect from hazards like cuts, chemicals, infection and vibration.
Types of PPE: footwear
Choosing the right protective footwear for yourself and your employees such as safety boots, the tasks they are needed for and what to consider.
Types of PPE: clothing
Choosing protective equipment for the body and legs to protect you and your employees from risks like extreme temperature, electric shock and chemicals.
Checklist: storing goods and materials safely
Ways of reducing storage risks - from clearing exit routes and checking shelving to clearing up spillages quickly and providing any appropriate equipment.
Storing food safely
Ensuring you comply with food-hygiene regulations and minimising the health and safety risks caused by lifting and carrying food.
Personal protective equipment (PPE)
When you might need to provide protective kit for employees - from headgear and eye protection to footwear - to minimise the risk of workplace injury.
The health and safety inspector's rights and powers
Lists rights to carry out investigations, take possessions and statements and to copy documents on your premises any time.
Preparing for the health and safety inspector's visit
Getting your records of risk assessments, safety inspections and training ready for inspection from a HSENI or local council environmental health inspector.
Advice and informal warnings from the health and safety inspector
The difference between best practice and legal duties, following verbal advice and improvement notices issued by the health and safety inspector after a visit.
Health and safety improvement notices
What an inspector will specify you will need to do, your right to appeal and who to contact for advice when you are issued an improvement notice after a visit.
Health and safety prohibition notices
What a prohibition notice is and why they are issued by a health and safety inspector after a visit, what you will need to do and who to contact for advice.
Appeals against health and safety enforcement notices
When you might want to appeal a health and safety enforcement notice, what will happen if you do and the possible verdicts from a tribunal hearing.
How to complain about a health and safety inspector
The complaints procedure if you're unhappy about an inspector's recommendations after the health and safety visit or think they are unreasonable.
What to expect from a health and safety visit
What to expect from a health and safety inspector, and the implications of improvement or prohibition notices.
Record your safety risk assessment findings and implement them
How to record your findings after a risk assessment and put a plan of action in place to prioritise and mitigate or remove the risks you have identified.
Review your health and safety risk assessment
How to review your risk assessment on an ongoing basis to identify hazards or risks from any new equipment, substances or procedures in the workplace.
Occupational health risks
Tackling key threats to staff welfare - from stress and drug abuse to repetitive strain injury and exposure to hazards.