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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.
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.