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What is Work-Related Violence and Aggression?

  • The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) define work-related violence as any incident in which a person is abused, threatened or assaulted in the workplace. There has been a serious crackdown on incidents of violence and aggression in the workplace, meaning it is an employer’s responsibility to monitor this conduct.
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VinciWorks

March 31, 2022

What is Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?

  • Personal protective equipment is essentially the equipment which can be used to protect an individual against health and safety risks in the workplace. It is a UK health and safety requirement for employers to enforce the use of personal protective equipment in the workplace.
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VinciWorks

March 31, 2022

What is a Risk?

  • Risk can be defined as the chance or probability that a person will be injured or experience an adverse health effect as a result of exposure to a hazard. In the workplace, there is no toleration under UK law for hazards and the subsequent risks to exist within the workplace as they will cause harm to others.
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VinciWorks

March 31, 2022

What is a Hazard?

  • According to definitions by COSHH a hazard in the workplace is any source of potential damage, harm or adverse health effects on something or someone. UK businesses and organisations have the legal duty to protect all individuals from hazards in the workplace, ensuring it remains a safe environment to work in.
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VinciWorks

March 31, 2022

How Work Activities can Affect Personal Safety

  • Certain work activities can be more dangerous than others, but all must be analysed using a risk assessment to ensure that personal safety is protected. Employers have a legal duty in the UK to ensure personal safety of employees is protected, but it is also employees responsibility to ensure their employer is acting accordingly.
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VinciWorks

March 31, 2022

How to Contribute to a Health and Safety Culture

  • A health and safety culture can be created within a workplace if all employees are trained and aware of UK health and safety legislation. There is a wide range of UK health and safety legislation and thus training courses and communication between employees is essential.
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VinciWorks

March 31, 2022
  • OFSI, sanctions, Sanctions list

One sanctions list. What does the UK’s 2026 change mean for your compliance framework?

From January 28, 2026, the UK Sanctions List will become the single authoritative source for all UK sanctions

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Naomi Grossman

New Zealand’s Crimes Amendment Bill is a major step in the fight against modern slavery

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is making significant strides in addressing modern slavery and human trafficking with the introduction of

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Sara Henna Dahan

The Employment Rights Act is now law. Download your free guide

The Employment Rights Act completed its passage through Parliament at the close of 2025, marking one of the

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Nick Henderson

EUDR delayed again: what changed, what is now fixed, and what businesses should do in 2026

The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) was meant to become operational at the end of 2024, then it was

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Sara Henna Dahan

  • AI, AI Compliance, Legal sector

When AI hallucinates and lawyers pay: The $86K legal wake-up call

The era in which AI-hallucinated case citations could be dismissed as a novelty is clearly over.   In

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Naomi Grossman

December compliance news round-up

Your 2026 compliance cheatsheets What to expect in corporate governance compliance in 2026. What to expect in 2026

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Nick Henderson

Failure to Prevent Fraud: just over four months on, are businesses really ready?

On 1 September 2025, the UK’s new corporate offence of Failure to Prevent Fraud came into force under

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Sara Henna Dahan

OFAC’s $4.7m real estate penalty is a sanctions case study in plain sight

On 24 November 2025, the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed a $4,677,552 civil penalty

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Sara Henna Dahan

Millicom’s TIGO Guatemala resolution: $118m paid to close US foreign bribery investigation

Millicom International Cellular, the Luxembourg-incorporated telecoms group behind the Tigo brand in Latin America, has agreed a two-year

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Sara Henna Dahan

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