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Start-up business ideas
Guides and tools to help you find and develop ideas for ways to start up your own business in Northern Ireland
Hire professional services
Guides on how and why to hire professional service providers to help your business in the startup phase
Business planning
Guides on how to create a business plan for your startup and how business plans can be useful at different stages of your business
Employment in your construction business
Guides to help constructions businesses understand their obligations and duty of care to employees
Starting a business - find a case study
A range of case studies from local entrepreneurs who have started successful businesses
Buy or sell a business - find a case study
Case studies focusing on companies that have been bought, sold or fanchised
Starting my business from home - Angels and Butterflies Jewellery Designs (video)
Debbie Todd, owner of Angels and Butterflies Jewellery Designs, discusses how she started her business from home
Types of stock
The four main types of stock - raw materials and components, work in progress, finished goods and consumables
How much stock should you keep?
Advantages and disadvantages of keeping either plenty of stock or very little
Stock control methods
How to control stock through reviews, minimum levels, using batch control and first in first out systems
Managing risks from diseases and infections in the workplace
Introducing policies and procedures to reduce incidences of disease and infections at work to protect your employees, clients and any other visitors
Avoid health and safety hazards in care service premises
Minimising workplace hazards and making your equipment and premises as user-friendly as possible in a business that provides care services, eg a care home
Train employees to use computers safely
Train employees in safe computer use including correct posture, technique and breaks and also ensure homeworkers work safely and are insured and are trained
Corporate manslaughter prosecutions and penalties
Who is responsible for investigating corporate manslaughter offences and the penalties that may follow prosecution such as unlimited fine or remedial order
What is corporate manslaughter?
What corporate manslaughter is and when your business can be prosecuted for this offence, involving a gross breach of duty of care by senior management
How to consult with your workers on health and safety
Practical ideas and hints on how to consult with your workers on health and safety and how different approaches will work in different work environments
Consulting your staff on health and safety: the law
Rules on consulting with your employees on health and safety, the regulations involved, how these may apply to you and where you can find further guidance
Corporate manslaughter
Guidance on the corporate manslaughter offence, how it is defined, prosecutions, penalties and how businesses can avoid being prosecuted through good practice
Workstation health and safety: desks, chairs and posture
What standards your furniture must meet for a safe computer workstation and what your employees need to be aware of to work safely including posture
Computer health and safety: task design and rest breaks
You have a duty to ensure that employees working on computers have a mix of activities and regular rest breaks to prevent health problems and injuries