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Airfreight documentation
An overview of some of the common paperwork required when you're sending airfreight consignments.
Airfreight insurance
How to protect your airfreight consignments with insurance cover in the event of loss or damage.
Airfreight rates
An overview of the basic costs of airfreight, your VAT obligations and other additional expenses.
Engineering business solvents and hazardous waste reduction
Guidance on the techniques for reducing solvent use and managing hazardous waste in engineering industries.
Reducing solvent use during surface cleaning
How your manufacturing business can reduce solvent use when cleaning and preparing surfaces of product components.
Benefits of mentoring
Advantages of business mentoring can include building your network and helping your personal and professional development.
Business mentoring
How a business mentor can offer you guidance and support to help your business succeed, and how to become a business mentor.
What is business mentoring?
Business mentoring is a supportive and guiding relationship that can be as informal or formal as you need it to be.
How to find a business mentor
Experienced business mentors can be found through local business networks and dedicated support organisations.
Online business mentoring
Online business mentoring lets mentors and mentees work together wherever they are located at times which suit.
Business mentoring in Northern Ireland
Information on organisations that provide mentoring opportunities for local businesses in Northern Ireland.
Manufacturing explosives
Explosives manufacturing is a hazardous business activity with specific regulations and licence requirements.
Printing business waste reduction
How printing businesses can reduce their waste and ways to deal effectively with the waste they do produce.
Explosives manufacturing and storage site safety and security
Guidance on separation distances, disposal rules and how to limit access to explosives to only authorised persons.
Do I need a licence to manufacture explosives?
The types of explosives manufacturing activities which require a licence and those activities which don’t.
Safety requirements when manufacturing explosives
A detailed overview of your health and safety responsibilities when manufacturing and storing explosives.
How to get an explosives licence or registration
Different types of explosives manufacturing and storage licences and registration and where to obtain them.
Do I need a licence to store explosives?
If your manufacturing business also stores explosives during the manufacturing process you will need a licence.
Types of explosives and explosive substances
The different types of explosives which you need a licence to manufacture and types of substances which are exempt.
Reduce waste during production and finishing in your printing business
How printing businesses can work to reduce unnecessary waste during the production and finishing processes.