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What’s new in Astute LXP – May 28th 2026 update (v3.5.3)

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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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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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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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The Legislative Responsibility of Employers Concerning Personal Safety

The UK legislative responsibilities of employers concerning personal safety is stated within the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations. UK legislation takes health and safety in businesses and organisations very seriously, and therefore employers must comply.

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Legislation around Self-Defence in a Potentially Violent Situation

Prevention of violence in the workplace is the legislative responsibility of an employer. However, if it does occur, self-defence can be used under certain conditions. Risk assessments must be conducted by employers to prevent violence from occurring within the workplace.

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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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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 to streamline administration on your LMS/LXP

In order to reduce administration time, it’s important to get to grips with your eLearning platform’s automated features

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How to improve knowledge retention rates

eLearning retention rates can be a tricky business – it’s not enough to just present learners with information

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On-demand webinar: ESG – Understanding reporting frameworks

ESG can feel like a complex and confusing topic, from finding the right data to track to aligning

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Using scenarios to promote learning effectiveness

Using scenarios to promote learning effectiveness In this video we take a closer look at scenario-based learning and

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What is Social Engineering?

Social engineering is another technique used by hackers to gain personal data from individuals through unauthorised access. This

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What is Phishing?

The concept of phishing is simple, pretend to be someone you’re not to get money/personal details out of

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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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