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Skills and training for directors and owners
The key skills needed by business owners and directors and how these skills can be developed.
Building a management team
Key considerations when building an effective management team for your business.
Essential Skills: developing literacy, numeracy and ICT skills
Essential Skills is a training programme that assists employees aged 16 and over in the development of literacy, numeracy and ICT skills up to level 2.
Setting net zero targets for our business - Kainos
Stephan Sakowicz explains what sustainability means to Kainos and how they plan to deliver on ambitious climate pledges.
Introduction to waste management
Waste management obligations when running a business and where to find support for waste management issues.
How to generate income from renewable energy
How to generate income from renewable energy, including export and feed-in tariffs and green energy certificates.
Is renewable energy right for my business?
How to assess the energy use in your business and consider your options for switching to renewable energy.
Benefits of using renewable energy
The business benefits of using renewable energy such as government incentives and saving on energy costs.
What is the waste management hierarchy?
Using the waste management hierarchy to choose how to deal with waste and make your business more efficient.
Find professional waste management bodies and trade associations
Waste disposal, recycling or waste trading business can find it useful to join a professional body or trade association.
Find a waste management training provider
Guidance on how you can find a suitable waste management training provider or course to train your staff.
Waste management training for your staff
How to identify staff training requirements to help your business meet its waste management responsibilities.
How to switch to renewable energy
The benefits of generating wind, biomass, solar, geothermal and hydroelectric energy and switching to renewables.
Generating biomass energy and anaerobic digestion
How biomass energy and anaerobic digestion work, and their advantages and disadvantages for your business.
Generating geothermal energy and ground source heat pumps
How geothermal energy and ground source heat pumps work and their advantages and disadvantages for your business.
Advantages and disadvantages of solar energy generation
The pros and cons of solar power, how it works and how to install a solar energy system in Northern Ireland.
Discharging trade effluent
An overview of trade effluent, also known as liquid waste, and how its discharge is controlled and regulated.
Generating our own renewable energy - JH Label Solutions (video)
Keith Hamilton of the James Hamilton Group explains how JH Label Solutions invested in a solar PV energy system.
Reducing and treating your trade effluent
How your business can save money on waste water bills by managing, reducing or treating its trade effluent.
How to avoid unauthorised effluent discharges
How your business can avoid discharging effluent without permission and potentially incurring costly fines.