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Free event 3 – 4 September, this two-day conference and exhibition offers practical advice and business expertise for owners, directors and entrepreneurs running small to medium sized businesses. National Indoor Athletic Centre, Cardiff.
For further details and registration for Ideal Business Show Wales
Exchange your dodgy ladder now. Ladder Exchange 2008 aims to highlight the risks associated with using a dodgy ladder, providing employers with the opportunity to exchange their substandard ladder for a new one at a discounted price.
Find out how to exchange your ladder
National campaign starts October 2008, targetting tradesmen at risk from asbestos exposure.
Find out more about the October asbestos campaign
Trial service - sign up for free important news and updates via a text message to your mobile phone from HSE’s construction team.
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A number of Health and safety related events are being held throughout Scotland in the next few months, beginning with a noise and vibration seminar in Hamilton on 26 August.
View events in Scotland
As part of the two year European risk assessment campaign we have put together some information on risk management and risk assessment to help small businesses in the printing and publishing industries.
View information on risk assessment in printing
HSE has launched a new website offering advice and guidance on health and safety topics in the retail industry such as slips and trips, manual handling and falls from height.
View the retail industry website
EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, is running a series of regional workshops on risk assessment in partnership with HSE in October. The workshops, which take place in and around European Week, will help to dispel many of the myths and communicate sensible risk management in practice.
View workshop details
HSE guidance and information on storing and selling fireworks has been updated.
View the storing and selling fireworks guidance
This consultation covers proposals to remove several legislative form filling requirements that apply to most businesses operating from a factory, office or shop in Great Britain.
Find out information on this consultation
Benchmark tools for large and small organisations to help you measure how well your business health and safety performance is doing.
View the bench mark tools
Time is running out for you to have your say on proposals to change the health and safety law poster - deadline 11 August 2008.
View the documents
Free information and quality advice to help you run a successful business. Thursday 23 October 2008, Riviera Centre, Torquay.
Find out more about this event
More than 100 Tyneside businesses were visited in a recent crackdown on industrial estates by Health and Safety Executive and local council inspectors.
View press release
Young people, especially those new to the workplace, will encounter unfamiliar risks from the jobs they will be doing and from the working environment. Employers what do you need to know?
Find out more on young people and the law
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