Maintaining health and safety standards in the new working world

In 2022, a growing number of businesses have moved, or are in the process of moving, to a hybrid working model. As such, employers now have staff working from various locations, coming and going between home and the workplace. On top of this, staff shortages continue to plague many sectors and absences are rife.

In reality, very few organisations are operating in exactly the same way they were pre-pandemic, meaning most will need to revisit the measures they have in place. Whether you’ve shed staff over the last two years, or they are now working from home, now is the time to pause and take stock.

This eBook explores the five key areas to review when operating a reduced workforce to ensure you continue to meet your health and safety obligations, as well as top tips for ensuring safety is maintained through workforce changes.

The eBook covers these five key areas:

• Fire wardens and fire safety management
• Monitoring and regular maintenance
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• Lone working
• First aiders
• Employee supervision

How to create a Compliance Culture in your organisation

The term ‘compliance culture’ isn’t new; for years we’ve heard about the need for organisations to create one in order to really get on top of and mitigate regulatory and reputational risk. In fact, it’s become something of a holy grail among business leaders.

This eBook explores how to create and sustain a compliant corporate culture – one wherein employees are motivated, happy, and do the right thing for the right reasons.

Positioning compliance as an ongoing journey and exercise in communication, this eBook explores themes of ownership, accountability, and ways to build trust from the top down. It also shares important insights about pitfalls to avoid when attempting to build compliance cultures, and how to recognise and nurture ongoing success in this area.

Learning points:

• How to define a compliance culture
• Your compliance culture and specific compliance risks
• Ways to build trust to nurture compliance
• Taking ownership and accountability
• Setting the right tone from the top
• What not to do to build a compliance culture

Remote working has many benefits, it’s flexible, cost-effective on the commute, and can reduce stress levels and sick days for busy employees. However, the increase in remote working has also seen increased cybersecurity risks for businesses, with employees using personal equipment, home networks, and mobile company devices. We designed this eBook to offer organisations some helpful tips and pointers to ensure cyber-safety and information security for employees working remotely.

Learning pointers:

• Working on a secure network
• Securing personal devices
• Phishing awareness
• Securing confidential information

In the wake of Covid 19, understanding best practices for health and safety has never been more important for organisations. Whether your company is fully open, or plans to implement hybrid or home working long-term, there are regulations employers simply cannot afford to neglect, although many often do. This eBook outlines eight health and safety laws you may not be aware of and could be breaking right now. Download today to assess your business’s risk level.

Learning points:

Common health and safety laws businesses are at risk of breaking, including:

• Flexible working regulations
• Remote working regulations
• Mental health considerations
• Workplace injury reporting

Cyber Security effectiveness

We understand that choosing the right cybersecurity training program is a big decision for many organisations. Finding the right training partner, agreeing and implementing the training, and overseeing roll-out with employees takes lots of time and effort. However, you’d be surprised how many organisations drop the ball when it comes to measuring the fruits of their labour; many have no idea how well their employees have engaged with the training in question. This eBook lists practical ways to measure the effectiveness of your cybersecurity training and offers useful advice for organisations looking to improve their cybersecurity offering.

Learning points:

• Principles to bear in mind when implementing cybersecurity training
• Useful tools to help measure the effectiveness of cybersecurity training
• How to identify skills gaps in your organisation

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) recently updated its guidelines on protecting homeworkers, with numbers of remote workers set to rise throughout 2021. The updated guidance reiterates the need for employers to demonstrate the same duty of care towards employees working from home as they do for onsite staff. This eBook offers an introduction to the HSE’s guidelines and practical training solutions to help organisations comply.

Learning points:

• The HSE’s new homeworking guidelines
• Training solutions to mitigate homeworking risks
• A guide to homeworking risk assessments

Sadly, bribery and corruption have been increasing across the business sector since the beginning of the twenty-first century. That’s why it’s so important for organisations to take steps and implement adequate procedures to avoid bribery and corruption taking place. We’ve created this eBook to help your business avoid bribery and corruption practices and raise awareness about how to implement ‘adequate procedures’ in line with Section 9 of the Act.

Learning points:

• What businesses can do to avoid falling victim to bribery and corruption
• How implementing adequate procedures helps organisations to avoid Bribery and Corruption
• An in-depth look at 6 adequate procedures
• A case study example of Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the steps this organisation has taken to avoid bribery and corruption.