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Reusing and recovering solvents
How to recover solvents and reuse solvents in your business, minimising waste to save disposal costs.
Why you should monitor your solvent use and emissions
The reasons for monitoring your solvent use and emissions, and the benefits of doing so for your business.
Solvent limits in vehicle refinishing products
Check that vehicle refinishing products you manufacture, import, distribute or sell meet relevant solvent limits.
Advantages of project management
Discover how project management methods and strategies can help you reduce risk, cut costs and improve success rates.
SWOT, PESTLE and other models for strategic analysis
Introduction to the common business analysis models, including SWOT and PESTLE analysis, scenario planning and Porter's Five Forces framework
Measure your financial performance
Use common financial performance measures, such as profit margins and accounting ratios, to review your business finances
Benchmark your business performance
Use benchmarking to measure your business performance against that of your competitors as a focus for your growth strategy
Competitor analysis
Performance metrics you can use to analyse your competitors, and how to use this information to inform your business decisions
How to analyse water use in your business
How you can assess the cost of your business water use by analysing how much water you use across all operations
Financial risk
Understand the main types of financial risks to your business and find ways to mitigate and reduce them
Strategies to help you manage business risk
Common strategies for treating the risks to your business are avoidance, acceptance, sharing, reduction and elimination
Storing and using solvents
How to minimise the risk of solvent leaks and spills by storing and handling solvents safely in your business.
Using your solvent emissions data
How to interpret and analyse your solvent emissions data when you put a solvent monitoring programme into practice.
Problems with growth: overtrading
Overtrading and lack of finance are common problems in a fast-growing business - here's how to overcome them
How to generate income from renewable energy
How to generate income from renewable energy, including export and feed-in tariffs and green energy certificates.
Acting on your environmental review
An action plan provides the method through which environmental improvements are achieved
Solvent limits in paints and varnishes
Check that paints and varnishes you manufacture, import, distribute or sell comply with relevant solvent limits.
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.
What is a standard?
Find out what a standard is, the types of standards that exist, and whether your business needs one
Business benefits of standards
Find out how using standards can boost your business' efficiency, access to markets, compliance and competitiveness