Topics
Absence and Working Time
Includes holidays, sick leave and SSP, working time and sabbaticals.
Accidents and Disease Reporting
Includes accident investigation and reporting, reportable diseases, emergency management and first aid.
Accidents and First Aid
What causes accidents, and how do you investigate and report them? Also covers first aid, compensation claims, COMAH and work-related fatalities.
Administration
Includes advertising, creating a website and data protection.
Air
Includes air pollution, quality standards, and control of emissions.
Assessment and Teaching
Includes curriculum delivery, assessment methods and performance targets.
Becoming an Academy
Includes the conversion process, transferring staff and working with a sponsor.
Building and Construction
From asbestos to CDM 2015 and the building regulations, also includes construction safety, disability access and the workplace environment.
Building and Planning Law
Includes tendering, contracts, building regulations, and the planning system.
Building Maintenance
Includes construction safety, utilities, disability access, cleaning, internal maintenance, asbestos, CDM regulations, environmental health, grounds, pest control, roofs & chimneys, sick building syndrome, ventilation, walls, workplace environment.
Buildings and Workplace Environment
Includes asbestos, CDM, electrical safety, gas appliance safety legislation and workplace environment.
Buildings Maintenance
Includes tendering contracts, cleaning, disabled access and facilities and security.
Business Essentials
Includes corporation tax, record keeping, protecting digital assets and VAT.
Business Premises
Includes commercial leases, business rating, managing relocation, and rights over land
Business Technology
Includes e-commerce, email and internet, and protecting digital assets.
Care Home Premises
Includes cleaning, equipment, premises maintenance management and security.
Care of Service Users
Includes safeguarding service users from abuse or harm, needs assessment and mental capacity.
Carriage of Goods
Includes abnormal loads, carriage of animal by-products, foodstuffs, live animals and waste and load safety.
Catering and Vending
Includes food safety, in-house catering, vending and outsourcing.
Chemical Hazards
The key requirements to managing, storing and restricting exposure to chemical hazards and explosives, includes REACH, COSHH and DSEAR.
Chemicals
Includes chemical hazards, REACH, asbestos, COMAH, COSHH, ozone-depleting substances, pesticides, PBTs and POPs, transport of dangerous goods, PCBs and PCTs, endocrine disruptors, biocides and volatile organic compounds.
Chemicals and the Environment
Includes biocides, contaminated land, IPPC, control of emissions and endocrine disrupters.
Circular Economy
Includes circular economy, ecodesign ISO 14006, ecolabelling, life cycle assessment and supply chain management.
Climate Change and Global Warming
Includes carbon reduction and footprinting, climate change and climate change levy, and emissions trading.
Community and Parental Relations
Includes handling complaints, marketing, parental and community engagement, and parent teacher associations.
Company Finance and Administration
Includes capital gains and corporation tax, insurance, and asset and credit management.
Construction (Design and Management) Regulations
Includes CDM Regulations, construction phase plans, designing for safety, and notifiable projects.
Contaminated Land
Includes remediation techniques and technologies, contaminated land, site investigation and tax implications.
Continuing Professional Development
Includes appraisal procedures and professional standards for teachers.
Contractors and Suppliers
Includes contractors, procurement, outsourcing, stock control and stores, use of consultants and supply chain management.
Contracts of Employment
Includes common clauses, contract terms, part-time working and TUPE.
Discipline and Grievance
Includes bullying and harassment, disciplinary and grievance procedures.
Discrimination and Diversity
Includes claims, equal pay, and all protected characteristics.
Driver Management
Includes drivers' hours, British domestic hours and driver allowances and pay.
Employing People
Includes absence, contracts of employment, appraisals and recruitment.
Employment
Includes maternity and family rights, recruitment and selection and pay and benefits.
Employment Essentials
Includes national minimum wage, contracts of employment, working time, and recruitment and selection.
Employment of Staff
Includes capability, disciplinary and grievance procedures, pay and conditions, discrimination, recruitment and contracts.
End of Employment
Includes: termination of employment.
Energy
Includes energy management, energy audits, monitoring and targeting, air conditioning and BMS, heating and ventilation, lighting and controls, energy procurement, electric motors and power, degree day data and sustainable energy sources.
Enforcement and Liability
Includes Best Available Techniques, economic instruments, enforcement, liability, EPP, IPPC, negligence, noise, odour, operational risk appraisal, penalties & fines, pollution prevention, radiation and statutory nuisance.
Environment
All you need to know on pollution, waste, water, ISO 14001, energy management and environmental management systems.
Environment Essentials
Includes energy saving measures, recycling and waste electrical and electronic equipment.
Environmental Issues
Includes energy saving measures, WEEE, and recycling, reuse and recovery.
Environmental Management
Includes energy management, recycling, sustainability, site waste management plans and corporate social responsibility.
Environmental Management in Haulage
Includes emission controls, end-of-life vehicles, fuel management and packaging waste.
Environmental Management Systems and Reporting
Includes ISO 14001, introduction to EMS, checking & auditing, CSR, EMS accreditation, environmental aspects, EPE, integrated management systems, legal framework and measuring & monitoring.
Environmental Requirements
Includes ecolabelling, assessment of hazardous waste, packaging waste and WEEE.
Equipment Maintenance
Includes electrical safety, inspection and testing, lifting equipment and machinery maintenance.
EU Legislation
Includes EU environmental policy and legislation, noise, transport, waste and water policies, and biotechnology.
Exporters: Customs and Documents
Includes customs entry, export controls, dealing with excise exports and security issues.
Facilities and Property Management
Includes heating and ventilation, lighting and controls, air conditioning and building management systems, helpdesk, sanitary and welfare facilities, intelligent buildings, relocation, rating, landlord and tenant, use of premises and rights over land.
Finance
Includes accounting and budgets, and tax and VAT.
Fire
Time to redo your fire risk assessments and consider detection and alarm systems, emergency procedures and fire-fighting equipment?
Fire Safety
Includes fire risk assessments, fire safety management, detection and alarm systems, emergency procedures and fire-fighting equipment.
Fleet Management
Includes fleet management, company and private car use, workplace parking and occupational road risk.
Food Safety
Includes food safety, hygiene control and possible illness, management systems and temperature control requirements.
General Customs Issues
Includes intrastat reporting, claiming preferential duty and procedures for trading within the single market.
Goods Requiring Special Procedures
Includes carriage of waste and import and export of waste.
Goods Vehicle Operations
Includes type approval, vehicle maintenance and markings, running light goods vehicles and weights and dimensions.
Governance
Includes the constitution, procedures and functions of the governing body.
Governance — Academies
Includes the constitution, procedures and functions of the governing body.
Governance — Independent Schools
Includes the constitution, procedures and functions of the governing body.
Growing the Business
Includes copyright and designs, intellectual property, trademarks and marketing.
Hazardous Goods
Includes storage of hazardous substances, transport of dangerous goods and REACH.
Hazards – Biological
Biological monitoring, biological organisms, decontamination and disposal, handling biological hazards, chemical biological, radiological or nuclear incidents and security.
Hazards – Chemical
Chemical hazards training, corrosives, flammable substances, gases, oxidising agents and organic peroxides, toxic substances, sites containing dangerous goods, storage and transport.
Hazards – Physical
Asbestos, cryogenic substances, dust, ionising radiation, man-made fibres, nanoparticles.
Health and Safety
Includes accident reporting, first aid, fire risk assessment, COSHH, manual handling, occupational, asbestos, food safety, electrical safety, PPE, training, temporary workers, visitors, health and safety management systems.
Health and Safety Essentials
Includes: fire safety, accidents, work equipment, and first aid.
Health of Service Users
Includes medication administration, dementia care, end-of-life care and consent to treatment.
Health Risks and Health and Safety
Includes infection control management, healthcare-associated infections, waste disposal and sharps.
HR Management
Includes gender pay gap reporting, change management and performance management.
HR Strategy
Includes leadership skills, employee retention and human resource planning.
Importers: Customs
Includes dealing with excise imports, duty reliefs, security issues and import controls.
Industrial and Employee Relations
Includes collective agreements and redundancies and whistleblowing.
Infection Control
Includes infection control management, infection prevention and control procedures and sharps.
Information Governance
Includes Caldicott principles and patient confidentiality, data protection and freedom of information act.
Information Technology
Includes information management and technology systems and national IM&T infrastructure and systems.
Inspection and Regulation
Includes CQC inspections, regulating and monitoring healthcare, licences to practise and revalidation, and NICE Quality Standards.
Inspection and School Improvement
Includes inspections, school improvement and self-evaluation.
Inspections
Includes complaints and inspection.
International Health and Safety
A new section, summarising the health and safety systems in other countries. More countries will be added over the coming months.
Introduction to Early Years
Includes Childcare Act 2006, Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), funding and planning.
IT and Information Governance
Includes Caldicott principles and patient confidentiality, data protection, freedom of information act and paperless practice.
Land Use Management
Includes biodiversity, Environmental Impact Assessment, soil, Strategic Environmental Assessment, the planning system, wildlife and countryside protection
Learning and Development
Includes the seven areas of learning, observation and transition.
Legal and Management Responsibilities
Looking for guidance on competency, consultation, responsiblities, risk assessment and training? It's all here, along with liability, enforcement and penalties.
Licences
Includes LGV vocational, motor vehicle excise and small vehicle driving licences.
Machinery and Work Equipment
Comprising machinery safety and maintenance, the use of PPE, mobile devices and specialised work equipment such as ladders, lift trucks and pressure systems.
Management and Legal Responsibilities
Includes corporate manslaughter, responsibilities of directors and senior managers, and penalties and sentencing.
Maternity and Parental Leave
Includes flexible working, maternity and parental leave, and paternity rights
NHS Information
Includes background information on various aspects of the NHS.
NHS Overview
Includes clinical commissioning groups, and human resources policy in the NHS.
Occupational Exposure
Asbestos related diseases, health surveillance, occupational asthma and dermatitis and smoking at work.
Occupational Health
Includes occupational health disorders and diseases associated with working on construction sites, such as asthma, asbestosis and upper limb disorders.
Occupational Health and Wellbeing
A focus on employee welfare, with topics on mental health, chronic conditions, ergonomics, DSE, drugs, alcohol, smoking and stress.
Office Technology
Includes adaptive technology, document management, videoconferencing and wireless working.
Operating Overseas
Includes operating in and outside the EU, international route planning and international carriage of perishable foodstuffs.
Overview
Includes the export and import processes and Incoterms 2010 rules.
Patient Services
Includes access to records and practice nursing.
Pay and Benefits
Includes National Minimum and Living Wage, deductions from pay, PAYE and NI.
Planning and Conservation
Includes biodiversity, sustainability, strategic environmental assessment and planning systems.
Planning and Organisation
Includes auditing, budgeting, business plans and funding.
Practice Activities
Includes appointments, child protection and the practice team, clinical governance and confidentiality.
Premises
Includes buildings and grounds maintenance, accessibility, minibuses, security management and signage.
Premises Management
Includes energy management, security, fire safety building design and premises access.
Professional Regulation
Includes professional regulation.
Pupil Welfare
Includes safeguarding, support strategies, behaviour management, attendance and equality of opportunity.
REACH
Includes labelling, REACH fees, hazard assessment, pre-registration and scope and substitution strategies.
Record Keeping
Includes admission and attendance registers, copyright and data protection.
Recruitment and Employment
Includes redundancy, recruitment, discipline and grievance and retirement.
Recruitment and Selection
Includes recruitment and selection and pre-employment checks.
Running the Business
Contains guidance on effectively running and maintaining the business.
Running the Haulage Business
Includes haulage contracts, insurance, fuel management and accounting for transport managers.
Safety
Includes accidents, manual handling, fire safety procedures and risk assessment.
Security and Emergency Planning
Includes security overview, information protection and cyber security, emergency management, counter terrorism, CCTV, security guards, access management and control, and perimeter security.
Security and Emergency Planning
A security overview, as well as cyber security, emergency management, counter terrorism, guards, and access control.
Site Hazards
Includes demolition, site traffic management, working at height, high voltage work and excavation.
Special Educational Needs and Disability
Includes areas of need, assessment and planning, the Local Offer, support strategies and resolving disputes about provision.
Staff
Includes: discrimination and equality, induction training, recruitment and selection and staff supervision and appraisal.
Staff Training and Qualifications
Includes transport manager training, vocational qualifications, CPD and driver certificate of professional competence.
Starting Up
Includes buying a business, marketing and sources of finance.
Strategic and Financial Management
Includes asset management, benchmarking performance and budgeting.
Supply
Export and import of dangerous chemicals and classification for supply.
Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Management
Includes sustainability and corporate social responsibility.
Systems of Control
Includes ventilation, COSHH, hazard assessment and identification and monitoring exposure.
Termination of Employment
Includes redundancy, resignation, retirement, and unfair and wrongful dismissal.
Training and Development
Includes coaching and mentoring, training strategies, and vocational qualifications.
Training and Improvement
Includes induction, appraisal, qualifications and supervision.
Transport
Includes transport of dangerous goods, dangerous goods safety advisors (DGSA) security, transport policy and vehicle emissions.
Transport
Includes transport of dangerous goods, dangerous goods safety advisors (DGSA) security, transport policy and vehicle emissions.
Transport Emissions
Includes transport policy, and vehicle emissions.
Waste
Includes hazardous waste, packaging, batteries, ELV, export & import, incineration, recycling, waste definitions, sewage sludge treatment, WEEE and waste treatment options.
Water
Includes discharge to sewer and to water, groundwater protection, water protection zones, drinking water quality, water management and water framework directive.
Welfare of Children
Includes accidents and emergencies, behaviour, nutrition, food safety, hygiene, sickness and injury, meals, medicines, outings safeguarding, security and SEN.
Workforce, Contractors and Visitors
Includes migrant, temporary, lone, young, mobile, agency and disabled workers.
Workforce, Visitors and Contractors
Requirements and best practice when dealing with contractors, visitors, disabled, lone, migrant, mobile, older, overseas, shift, young and temporary workers.
Working Abroad
Includes establishing an international workforce, pay and benefits, and taxation.
Working with Parents
Includes admissions, parental responsibility and partnership working.
Workplace Hazards
Includes radiation, working at height, confined spaces, electrical safety, vibration, hotwork, manual handling, slips, trips and falls, violence, transport and occupational road risk.
Workplace Health
Asbestos-related diseases, legionnaires, MSDs, asthma, dermatitis and lung diseases are just some of the topics covered.
Workplace Safety
Includes fire safety, workplace equipment and workplace environment.
Reference Articles
Care Standards
Access the full text CQC fundamental standards and other care standards.
Country Information
Background information for UK companies engaged in overseas work, including public holidays, as well as country-specific advice, guidance and compliance.
Emergency First Aid Guide
Charts that provide a list of the symptoms and the first aid required following exposure with more in-depth information on first aid treatments.
Emergency Spillage Guide
Charts that provide a description of the appropriate action to be taken in the event of a spillage with more in-depth information on treating chemical spills.
Key Rates and Data
Statistics, payment rates, allowances, benefits, award rates and penalties.
Law and Guidance
Content to help you research legislation and guidance.
Questions and Answers
Frequently asked questions and model answers.
Salary Benchmarking
Access to six key Salary Survey Executive Summaries.
Strategic Briefings
Research-led or opinion pieces from experts in the field.