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Be ready for a health and safety inspection: seven top tips
Top tips to ensure that your business is ready for a visit from the health and safety inspector at all times – including what records you must have to hand.
Welfare facilities at work
Your legal duty to provide welfare facilities for employees, such as toilets, drinking water and clothes storage.
Healthy and safe working environment
How to ensure that you provide a health working environment for your employees, including ventilation, lighting and space.
Safe working temperatures
Reasonable temperatures for a working environment, when you should send staff home and how to manage extreme temperatures.
Workplace welfare facilities and healthy working environment
How to comply with employee welfare regulations in the workplace by providing facilities and maintaining a safe, healthy working environment.
Health and safety risk assessment
The key steps that all businesses should follow when carrying out a health and safety risk assessment to identify and mitigate hazards and comply with the law.
Assess the health and safety risks in your business
How you can assess the risks in your business and work to reduce them by carrying out a proper risk assessment that identifies and minimises safety hazards.
Identify health and safety hazards
How to identify any potential causes of harm or injury in your workplace as part of a risk assessment by walking around, looking at records and talking to staff.
Evaluate health and safety risks and decide on precautions
Assessing the risks at your place of work and developing systems to avoid these hazards and accidents such as issuing protective equipment or reducing exposure.
Safe manual handling at work
Protecting employees from the risks of carrying, lifting, pushing and pulling loads by assessing and reducing the risks and ensuring staff are properly trained.
Key health and safety management legal obligations
Staying up to date with your legal responsibilities for health and safety to protect staff, customers and visitors, have liability insurance and have a policy.
Control and review your health and safety management systems
Keeping records and driving continual improvement of health and safety management through setting targets, regular reviews and audits.
Review your suppliers' performance
How to manage supplier performance, and what evaluation criteria to use when conducting supplier performance reviews.
Supplier service level agreements
Importance of service level agreements in supply chain management, key clauses and best practices.
Ending supplier contracts
Possible penalties, operational barriers and other points to consider when ending a contract with a supplier.
Best practices in supplier quality management
Understand the importance of supplier quality management and learn best practices for monitoring and improving the quality of your supply chain.
What is the EU Construction Products Regulation?
Background to the new Northern Ireland CPR rules looking at the EU Construction Products Regulation.
Construction products and the UK(NI) indication
Information on the new UK(NI) marking and when your business needs to use it for construction products.
Placing construction products on the Northern Ireland market
Guidance for businesses placing construction products on the Northern Ireland market and the correct markings to use.
Changes for Northern Ireland economic operators
Changes which businesses making construction products available on the market in Northern Ireland need to be aware of.