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Laptop health and safety
What to consider before you buy a laptop for your employees to use, how to reduce the health and safety risks and the training you must provide by law
Negotiate a contract with an advertising agency
What you should include in any formal arrangements your business makes with a new advertising agency including contract length, campaign details and objectives.
Advantages and disadvantages of digital marketing
Understand the benefits and downsides of digital marketing over traditional marketing methods including global reach, lower costs, measurable results and high competition.
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
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.
Alcohol sales and young people
Guidance on the legal requirements for selling alcohol and on preventing the sale to minors under 18.
Using technology at your materials recovery facility
How to make sure that you use automation and technology efficiently at your materials recovery facility.
Waste contractor's guide to recycling construction waste
How materials recovery facilities and waste management contractors can get involved in managing construction waste.
Setting up a construction material logistics plan
How to use a material logistics plan in your construction project to reduce the use of resources and cut waste.
Sorting and handling construction waste
The legal controls that apply to handling construction and demolition waste at materials recovery facilities.
Waste management at the start of construction projects
How materials recovery facilities can advise customers about waste management before starting a project.
Working with producers of construction waste
How waste contractors and material recovery facilities can improve waste management practices on construction sites.
What is a construction material logistics plan?
What a construction material logistics plan is and the stages involved in setting one up for a construction project.
Producing high quality recovered waste materials
The operational measures you should use to ensure a high quality of output at materials recovery facilities.
Which construction materials can be recycled?
The different types of waste materials that you are likely to receive from construction and demolition projects.
Use resources efficiently in construction and building trades
How different trades on a building site can make better use of resources and cut costs by working together.