A-Z guides
Information management
Serious breaches of IT security and major losses of customer or employee data regularly feature in the news. Clearly, such breaches of security have a major impact on the organisation affected on a number of levels – from damage to reputatio...
Inspection
There are numerous bodies tasked with enforcing health and safety legislation in the UK. The HSE concerns itself with factories, agriculture, mines and quarries, docks and railways, whereas Local Authorities oversee, amongst others, shops, offices...
Intellectual property
Intellectual property can be a valuable asset. Every business will own intellectual property rights of one sort or another. Intellectual property rights should, therefore, be protected and enforced in order to ensure that they retain their value. ...
Leadership guide
In almost every area of business, the importance of good leadership cannot be overestimated. In the UK, the HSE fully appreciates the role that good safety leadership has on an organisation's safety performance. ‘Good safety is good business...
Legionella
Legionella bacteria occur in most fresh water, usually at such low levels that they are harmless. Once inside a water system, however, if conditions favour growth, they can multiply to levels that pose risk of infection, but this level does not eq...
Loneworking
Loneworkers are those who work by themselves without close or direct supervision. The definition is very loose, because anyone can be a loneworker if the occasion presents itself – it could include someone working late to finish a report, or...