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Chemical manufacturing and air pollution
Types of air pollution related to chemical manufacturing, and how your business must work to reduce or prevent it.
Understand your competitors
How to identify your competitors, find out more about them and then use this information to improve your business.
What you need to know about your competitors
Examine how your competitors do business, what they offer and how they treat their customers.
Learn about customers’ needs from competitors
How learning about a customer's current supplier can help you, if you identify why the customer buys from a rival supplier you can work out how to better them.
Understand your customers' needs
Why understanding your customers' needs is crucial to the success of your business, no matter how good your offering is, customers must want it.
10 CSR activity ideas for positive social impact
Examples of meaningful CSR initiatives to help you encourage teamwork, build reputation, and contribute positively to the community.
Allowing time off work
When staff have a statutory right to time off, when it must be paid, and how to deal with discretionary requests.
Time off work for training and certain job-related duties and activities
Time off for training for those to be made redundant, union and safety representatives, and pension scheme trustees.
Who has the right to time off work and when is it paid?
Time off for trade union work, TUPE consultation, pension scheme, and public duties is a paid, statutory requirement.
Time off work for information and consultation purposes
Time off to be a representative in redundancy and transfer situations, and to attend information and consultation meetings.
Time off work for personal commitments and emergencies
An employee's right to unpaid time off to look after dependants in an emergency, discretionary and extended leave.
Time off for public and judicial service and duties
Time off rights for employees taking part in activities relating to public bodies and the legal system.
Statutory time off work for parental reasons
Time off for maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental leave or parental leave, and time off for pregnant employees.
Create a knowledge management strategy
How to develop a knowledge management strategy, and use it to transfer, share and use knowledge to grow your business.
Sharing knowledge in your business
How to share knowledge effectively and efficiently between different people and areas in your business.
Knowledge management systems
Overview of the systems you can use to manage knowledge in a business - eg data mining, analytical and reporting tools.
Chemical manufacturing water efficiency
How chemical industry businesses can use simple, cheap operating practices to reduce water use and save money.
Energy efficiency in paper and cardboard production
How paper and cardboard producers can cut their energy costs and meet Energy Performance Certificate requirements.
Paper manufacturing and renewable energy generation
Renewable energy sources for paper and cardboard producers, such as solar, wind and water power, and biomass.
Knowledge management and your business (video)
Watch this short video to find out how to implement knowledge management in business to gain a competitive edge.