Overhaul of guidance to help 10 million working at height
SOURCE: HSE The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has overhauled its guidance for working at height, setting out in clear, simple terms what to do and what not to do – and [...]
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Health and Safety Newsletter: Winter 2013
Source: HSE The Winter 2013 Health & Safety Newsletter is now [...]
Consultation to improve regulation of health and social care providers
SOURCE: GOV.UK Proposed changes to Care Quality Commission registration requirements set out basic level of care that all health and care organisations must provide [...]
The lowdown on Driver CPC
Source: VOSA There’s now less than 8 months left before the 10 September 2014 deadline for lorry drivers with acquired rights to complete their first round of 5 days [...]
Protection for whistle-blowers disclosing information to the ICO
Protection for whistle-blowers disclosing information to the ICO. The Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA) and the Public Interest Disclosure (Northern Ireland) Order [...]
Risk Assessments For The Health and Social Care Sector
The Health and Safety Executive have issued new guidelines which provide information about protecting the health and safety of care staff while ensuring that the safety, [...]
WEEE
Following the changes to the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations which came into force in January 2014, the Department for Business has issued new guidance [...]
New Waste Standard
The Carbon Trust has introduced a new waste standard, in the form of a certificate awarded to businesses that can demonstrate that they are measuring, managing and reducing [...]
Small Business Phone Contracts
Ofcom has announced new guidance which allows consumers and small businesses with less than ten employees to cancel landline, broadband or mobile phone contracts without [...]
Encryption of Information
Under the Data Protection Act , data controllers are responsible for ensuring any personal data stored on portable devices is encrypted, in cases where the loss of [...]
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