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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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How do you Prevent Violence in the Workplace?

Violence in the workplace can occur when the organisation hasn’t conducted the appropriate training to prevent such violence from occurring. All organisations need to take a hands-on approach to prevent violence from occurring in the workplace.

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How do you Minimise Risks to your Personal Safety?

It is an employer’s responsibility to ensure health and safety standards are maintained in the workplace, but it is also an employee’s own responsibility to minimise risks to their personal safety. Training and knowledge of how to best minimise risks to your personal safety is essential.

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How can you Identify a Potential Hazard before it becomes an Issue?

The UK health and safety legislation states that a risk assessment is a legal duty for an employer, and this appropriately identifies hazards in the workplace. Therefore, employers must be trained and aware of how to conduct risk assessments.

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What Facilities do Employers Need to Provide for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Mothers?

The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 state that legally employers have a responsibility to provide “suitable facilities” to new and expectant mothers in the workplace. Certain workplaces will be more accommodating to their pregnant employees than others, therefore it is important to understand what you are entitled to as a new or expectant mother.

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What Benefits am I Entitled to if I Don’t Return to Work After Maternity Leave?

Some parents will decide not to return to work after maternity leave, and therefore it is important to understand how this will affect your maternity pay and your benefits. If you received statutory maternity pay or contractual maternity pay, then whether you have to pay your money back will differ.

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How Many Hours Can Pregnant Women Work by Law?

Legally, pregnant women can continue to work the average 40 hours a week or the hours that they were working previously. However, a pregnant employee must only continue to work these hours if it is safe to do so, physically and emotionally. If a pregnant employee can’t continue to perform their role safely, then their hours could be reduced or changes must be made.

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How Long is Maternity Leave?

Pregnant employees in the UK who meet the requirements will be entitled to 52 weeks of maternity leave in total. Contractual maternity schemes will offer employees more maternity leave than the statutory amount. Therefore, knowing how much maternity leave you are entitled to is important.

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How Does Maternity Leave and Maternity Pay Work?

In the UK, maternity leave and maternity pay are statutory, and therefore if you qualify to receive this, your employer is legally required to pay you the specific amount and allow you the specific amount of time off. Therefore, it is important to understand what you are entitled to regarding your maternity leave and maternity pay.

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What is Money Laundering? | VinciWorks

What is Money Laundering?

What is money laundering? Money laundering is the term used to describe the act of disguising illegal money

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How to Set a Secure Password

Passwords are possibly the first thing that come to mind when we think of maintaining privacy whilst online.

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Remote working and online safety

Remote working has many benefits, it’s flexible, cost-effective on the commute, and can reduce stress levels and sick

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How do I get next level ROI on my training investment?

In this video, our Learning Design Director, Stacey, demonstrates how implementing an adaptive learning program facilitates next level

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Hybrid working: reduce the risk of cyber attacks

The rise of remote working since the Covid-19 pandemic has seen cybercrime skyrocket, with opportunist criminals targeting employees

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Compliance 101 Podcast Series, Episode 4: Risk assessing bribery

At the heart of any anti-bribery programme is a risk assessment. Like any other risk assessment, the specific

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Regulatory Agenda for April 2022

To help businesses keep track of updates in UK legislation and policies, VinciWorks regularly publishes a regulatory update.

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Using microlearning to support ongoing training

Listen to our Quality Assurance Specialist, Ryan, as he describes how to get the best out of your

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