Download your free guide to the latest developments in sanctions on Russia and what your firm needs to do to stay compliant

The field of economic sanctions has been growing increasingly complicated in recent years. The past year was a historic and transformative period for the use of financial sanctions on both the global and UK levels. Western nations launched an unprecedented line of sanctions against Russia and Russian companies, and also against Russia’s ally Belarus, in response to its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. With the war showing no end in sight, sanctions and penalties for non-compliance are only continuing to ramp up. 

All businesses, both regulated and unregulated, must comply with financial and trade sanctions and companies must be able to prove that they are properly screening for sanctions. Failure to comply with screening requirements can carry stiff penalties reaching into the millions per infraction and remember that there’s strict liability when it comes to sanctions so any sanctions breach, even accidental, is a crime. 

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This new EU initiative, designed to promote sustainability in the EU and globally, will impact companies in the EU and beyond. Here’s how you can get ready for it

The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) is a new piece of legislation that will have far-reaching implications for EU companies and all companies doing business in the EU. It wants to ensure that companies operate sustainably and responsibly. The reporting requirements will be stringent and are designed to get companies to protect the environment, maintain social justice and promote a stronger, sustainable economy.

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Preventing slips, trips and falls is vital to protect health and safety at work.

This guides covers;

  • What happens if there is a slip, trip or fall?
  • How do slips happen?
  • Case studies: When things go wrong
  • Top risks for slips, trips and falls
  • Preventing slips, trips and falls
  • Conducting a risk assessment
  • Slips, trips and falls hazard checklist
  • What to do next to prevent slips, trips and falls

Your Guide to Manual Handling at Work

In every business there is the possibility of accidents or risks occurring as a result of unsafe working practices. Workplaces can expose people to hazards such as slips and trips, manual handling, dangerous machinery, electricity, exposure to hazardous substances, falls from height, noise and stress to name a few.

This Guide covers;

  • What is manual handling?
  • The Types of manual handling
  • Risks of getting it wrong
  • Hazards in manual handling

Your Guide to Harmful and Hazardous substances at work

A substance hazardous to health is a substance or mixture with the potential to cause harm if they are inhaled, ingested, or come into contact, or are absorbed through the skin.

Nearly 20% of workers in the EU reported being exposed to chemical products or substances for at least a quarter of their working time, a proportion practically unchanged since 2000, and 15% report breathing in smoke, fumes, powder or dust at work according to the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work.
This Guide covers;

  • What are hazardous substances?
  • The risks of hazardous substances
  • The hierarchy of prevention
  • Carrying out a COSHH risk assessment
  • What to do next on Harmful and hazardous substances at work?

Preventing slips, trips and falls is vital to protect health and safety at work

This guides covers:

  • What happens if there is a slip, trip or fall?    
  • How do slips happen?    
  • Case studies: When things go wrong    
  • Top risks for slips, trips and falls
  • Preventing slips, trips and falls    
  • Conducting a risk assessment    
  • Slips, trips and falls hazard checklist    
  • What to do next to prevent slips, trips and falls

Making sure third parties comply with H&S

A well-functioning supply chain is critical to keeping business operations running successfully, from the products they sell to the services they offer consumers. This involves not only having a supply chain that is productive operationally, but also carries out its activities legally and ethically

This guide will discuss what due diligence is, the importance of health and safety due diligence in your supply chain, and how health and safety courses can play a part when carrying out due diligence.

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