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Buy the right personal protective equipment
Choosing protective kit that's suitable for the risks, workplace conditions and the wearer including the types of protective equipment you should provide.
Weights and measures rules for bakers
Weights and measures rules for bakers including rules regarding the weight of packaged bread.
Weights and measures for packaged goods
What you must do if you sell goods in packages of a pre-determined constant quantity, including rules on average weights and ‘tolerable negative error’.
Weights and measures rules for greengrocers
Weights and measures rules for greengrocers including selling loose fruit and vegetables by net or gross weight and selling countable items.
Weights and measures rules for butchers
Weights and measures rules for butchers including selling by net or gross weight, displaying prices and using approved scales.
Sell by metric weights and measures
The metric weights and measures your business must use when selling goods, including kilograms, litres and metres.
Enforcing weights and measures legislation
Overview of who is responsible for the regulation of weights and measurement legislation in the UK.
Weights and measures
The law applying to the supply and sale of goods (including food and drink) by weight or other measures such as volume or length.
Health and safety prosecutions
Reasons to warrant a prosecution that is in the public interest such as a death or repeated poor compliance and possible penalties such as a fine or imprisonment.
Be ready for a health and safety inspection: seven top tips
Top tips to ensure that your business is ready for a visit from the health and safety inspector at all times – including what records you must have to hand.
Welfare facilities at work
Your legal duty to provide welfare facilities for employees, such as toilets, drinking water and clothes storage.
Healthy and safe working environment
How to ensure that you provide a health working environment for your employees, including ventilation, lighting and space.
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.