The importance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) at work
What is PPE? PPE stands for Personal Protective Equipment and is defined in the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations as: ‘All equipment (including clothing affording protection against the weather) which is intended to be worn or held by a person at work which protects them against one or more risks to their health and […]
Attracting top talent in the age of Tinder
How to get millennials to marry your company Is your firm feeling a bit male, pale and stale? Have millennial hires turned your office into a revolving door, with new faces never staying long enough for you to remember their names? Is the talent pool shrinking, or is the traditional bait just no longer working? […]
Criminal Finances Act – not just for accountants and lawyers
The Criminal Finances Act created a corporate criminal offence for failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion. Under this revolutionary law, if an employee or a contractor helps someone evade their taxes, that business can be prosecuted for failing to prevent it from happening. Implementing reasonable procedures to prevent tax evasion is a key […]
Records Mis-Management: NHS Contractor Puts Thousands at Risk
In a case of records management gone terribly wrong, more than 700,000 letters to NHS patients were discovered to have been piled up in a warehouse and left or disposed of by the bag-full. The letters contained clinical correspondence that required re-directing due to patients moving GP surgeries or changing home address. Instead, however, the […]
SME Hit Hard: Devastating £60,000 Fine Confirms the Importance of Cyber Security Awareness
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) delivered a wake-up call of some magnitude recently when it announced a £60,000 fine for Berkshire-based SME, Boomerang Video (an online store which rents video games out). The company’s website was found to have insufficient cyber-security measures in place, which resulted in the personal data of over 26,000 customers being […]
New module added to cyber security course – Cyber Security and IT
VinciWorks is constantly updating its courses to keep up with changes in regulations, law and the risks faced by organisations every day. We also pride ourselves on providing completely customisable courses to ensure that each course is relevant to all staff in an organisation. New module for IT professionals IT staff in any organisation have […]
Application of sanctions now broader than ever
New European regulations came into force today, 8 August 2017, that have dramatically expanded the number of businesses who must ensure they follow UK sanctions rules. The European Union (Amendments of Information Provisions) Regulations 2017 make it a criminal offence to fail to report knowledge or reasonable cause to suspect someone is under an asset […]
New GDPR eLearning Course now available
VinciWorks has launched a new GDPR eLearning course on a topic all companies in the EU need to ensure they are up to speed on this year – General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). From 25th May 2018, the new legal framework on GDPR will apply, with businesses failing to recognise the compliance status facing substantial […]
New Course Release – Tax Evasion: Failure to Prevent
VinciWorks releases new e-learning course on tax evasion Does your organisation have “reasonable procedures” in place for preventing the facilitation of tax evasion? The Criminal Finances Act, passed by Parliament on 27th April 2017, creates a new corporate criminal offence for failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion. This places the responsibility on businesses […]