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Advantages and disadvantages of franchising your business
The benefits and potential drawbacks of using franchising to grow your business.
Advantages of an employee buyout
An employee buyout can help preserve your business and employees jobs, and deliver a fair price.
Find out about franchise opportunities
How and where to find out about franchise opportunities.
Your legal responsibilities for lone workers' safety
It is your legal responsibility to ensure that lone workers are at no greater risk than other employees, make sure you take action to assess and minimise risks
Help and advice for employee buyouts
Sources of information, advice and specialist financing for employee buyout.
Key stages in an employee buyout
Assessing feasibility, planning, negotiating and completing an employee buyout.
Forms of employee ownership
Employee trusts, direct share ownership, co-operatives and other employee ownership options.
Financing an employee buyout
Borrowing options, deferred payment and employee financing for buyouts.
Train employees to lift and carry correctly
Teaching staff good handling techniques and how to identify potentially harmful activities can help reduce the risk of injury from manual handling tasks.
Assess the risks of manual handling
Conducting a risk assessment of tasks that involve lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling heavy loads in five easy steps, from identify to taking action.
Reduce the risks of manual handling
Avoiding lifting and carrying altogether, automating processes and providing mechanical equipment can all help reduce manual handling risks of moving loads.
Reduce the risks of remote working
Advice on minimising the risks involved in working away from the office including examples of common remote working risks and how to reduce them
Tips for good lifting technique
Lifting loads safely - plan the lift, get a good hold, avoid twisting the back, move smoothly - key techniques for reducing manual handling risks.
Intellectual property after 1 January 2021
Information for owners and users of IP about the changes to the IP system in the UK after the end of the transition period
Changes to international trade mark registrations
Overview of the rules governing international trade mark registrations protected in the EU under the Madrid Protocol
Changes to unregistered designs
Overview of the rules governing unregistered Community designs in the UK
Collective rights management in the EU
EEA collective management organisations may no longer automatically represent UK right holders and collective management organisations
Copyright clearance for UK satellite broadcasting
Guidance for satellite broadcasters transmitting copyright works into the UK and from the UK to EEA states
Cross-border portability of online content services
UK customers may not be able to access their online content services when they visit the EU
Exhaustion of IP rights and parallel trade
Actions that parallel exporters to the EEA and intellectual property rights holders need to take