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What you should include in the arrangements section of your health and safety policy including information on hazards and risk assessment.

What you should include in your statement of intent in your written health and safety policy including who is responsible for health and safety duties.

How to ensure good ventilation in the workplace.

How to ensure that you provide a health working environment for your employees, including ventilation, lighting and space.

Your legal duty to provide welfare facilities for employees, such as toilets, drinking water and clothes storage.

A guide to developing a workplace policy on domestic and sexual abuse and supporting employees who are abused.

Simple steps and tips to help you reduce water and wastewater bills by limiting your business’s water use.

Discharge of contaminated wastewater other than normal sewerage, known as trade effluent, into the sewer requires consent and is chargeable.

Understand the charges that businesses must pay for sewerage services.

Identifying typical hazards in enclosed spaces and analysing the chances of their occurring including lack of oxygen, poisonous gases, fumes and fire.

Confined spaces, from storage tanks, silos and drains to vats, can pose risks to workers industries such as agriculture, installation and telecommunications.

How to identify ways of reducing the risks of falls, such as using safe working platforms, planning work properly and providing appropriate training.

Complying with rules to reduce the risks of falls from height and of working in a confined enclosed space to protect yourself and your employees from injury.

Understand the different types of water charges for Northern Ireland businesses.

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.

What an inspector will specify you will need to do, your right to appeal and who to contact for advice when you are issued an improvement notice after a visit.

The difference between best practice and legal duties, following verbal advice and improvement notices issued by the health and safety inspector after a visit.

Lists rights to carry out investigations, take possessions and statements and to copy documents on your premises any time.

Getting your records of risk assessments, safety inspections and training ready for inspection from a HSENI or local council environmental health inspector.

Water and sewerage charges for Northern Ireland businesses, and how to minimise costs by reducing water use in your business.

How to use local air cleaning and filtration units to reduce airborne transmission of aerosols where it is not possible to maintain adequate ventilation.

Simple steps you can take to ensure the workplace is adequately ventilated without being too cold.

How you can improve the natural ventilation in your workplace using windows, air vents and doors.

You must keep shared parental leave and pay records for HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).