4 Jan, 2021 | Risk Assessment
According to the 2019 Retail Crime Survey, retail workers are facing increased risks of violence and abuse. On average, 115 employees are attacked at work every day. A total of 42,000…
23 Dec, 2020 | Advice, General
Leading charity Woman’s Aid defines domestic abuse as an incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening, degrading and violent behaviour, including sexual violence, in the majority of cases…
21 Dec, 2020 | Advice, Health & Wellbeing, Lone Working
Training is a necessity to ensure that employees – on a fundamental level – understand how to perform their job role. Appropriate training is also important to educate workers on…
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26 Nov, 2020 | Legislation & Responsibilities
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 came into effect in 2008 in response to a number of large-scale disasters in the 1990s and acts to impose criminal responsibility…
17 Nov, 2020 | Legislation & Responsibilities, General
Across the UK, there are around 166,000 registered charities employing 870,000 people. In order to remain operational and deliver essential services, charities are reliant on volunteers to supplement their paid…
23 Oct, 2020 | Home/Hybrid Working, Legislation & Responsibilities
The number of people working from home has steadily been on the rise for the last few years, with the Annual Population Survey (APS) showing around 1.7 million people in the UK…
16 Oct, 2020 | Advice, Lone Working
In 2018, the UK Government reported that there were 31,720 child and family social workers employed by local authorities in England. The number of social workers visiting clients at home has increased…
25 Sep, 2020 | Advice, Legislation & Responsibilities
Under the Equality Act 2010, the definition of a disability is a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on someone’s ability to do normal daily…
21 Sep, 2020 | Lone Working
An increasing number of NHS staff work alone, for some or all of their day, in community settings such as patients’ homes or on outreach work. NHS Protect defines lone…
5 Aug, 2020 | Health & Wellbeing
In 2019, the British Cleaning Council (BCC) reported that the UK cleaning industry employs over 700,000 people and contributes over £24 billion to the economy. Cleaners are often categorised by working in…
