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Continuous improvement for better profitability
Importance of reviewing productivity and market trends, and analysing your business performance, to maintain the profitability of your business.
Reduce business costs to increase profits
Analyse your direct and indirect business costs to control and reduce expenditure and maximise your profit.
Enter new markets to increase profits
Increase your profitability by extending your products and services into new sectors or territories.
Improve productivity to increase profits
Understand the relationship between productivity and profitability - their differences and impact on your business' bottom line.
Target your most profitable customers
How to identify your best customers and sell more products or services to those customers that will deliver the most profit.
Strategies to increase sales revenue
Try these strategies to increase your sales and boost the profitability of your customers, product lines and business.
Calculate your profit margins
How to work out your gross profit margin and your net profit, and use these measures to increase revenue and profitability of your business.
Inform and consult your employees
The types, benefits and legal obligations of consultation and communication.
Legal requirements for communicating with employees
Understand your legal requirements for communicating with employees.
Advantages of good employee communication
Benefits of communicating effectively with your employees.
Consulting your employees
Consultation that is required by law and voluntary consultation.
Appoint a competent person for health and safety
Your legal duty to appoint a competent person to advise on health and safety, including external sources of help and how to choose the right person.
ICE Regulations: pre-existing agreements and fall-back provisions
How pre-existing consultation agreements and fall-back provisions affect I&C agreements.
The Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005
How the ICE Regulations work, including pre-existing agreements and the fall-back provisions.
ICE Regulations: enforcement, protections and confidential information
Enforcement mechanisms in the ICE Regulations.
Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees (TICE) Regulations 1999
The TICE Regulations apply to multinational businesses operating in the European Economic Area.
Train staff to avoid repetitive strain injury
Training your staff in order to minimise the risks from repetitive strain injury by teaching them to be aware of the symptoms of RSI and reduce risks.
Causes of repetitive strain injury at work
The types of activities that can lead to repetitive strain injury, and types of worker that are particularly at risk including risks from cold and vibration.
Event safety: important contacts
As an event organiser, you should keep in touch with organisations such as your local council, the PSNI, the fire brigade, first aid providers, the ambulance service and your insurer.
Types of PPE: eyewear
Providing the correct level of eye protection for your workforce and yourself including equipment such as goggles, what to consider and who will need it.