The Health of Your Employees is Vital to the Health of your Business Breast Cancer Awareness Month - October 2019 In the UK over 100,000 people of working age are diagnosed with cancer each year, and research indicates that 6 in 10 of people with cancer will want to continue to work after or…
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10 Steps to Health and Safety success
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10 Steps to Health and Safety – 2 Legal compliance
10 Steps to Health and Safety - 2 Legal compliance [caption id="attachment_3099" align="alignleft" width="256"] Compliance with the law[/caption] There is lots of health and safety legislation, with wide ranging impacts for organisations. The main piece of legislation is the Health and Safety at Work Act etc. 1974 (HASAW). This allows for the creation of other…
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10 Steps to Health and Safety – 3 Identify and manage risks
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