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Research from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) shows that offering health and wellbeing benefits to staff can play a valuable role in boosting productivity.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has confirmed that everybody in cohorts one to nine — including those aged 50 and over, health and care workers and the clinically vulnerable — has been offered a vaccine.

With non-essential shops, gyms, hairdressers and other premises now re-opened as England's lockdown eases, the British Safety Council (BSC) decided to check that organisations were prepared.

Two former directors of Northern Ireland-based firm FP McCann Ltd (FPM) have been disqualified for their parts in a cartel which infringed competition law.

The Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) is pressing ahead with implementation of the ETIM model of data classification which will ensure all users employ the same terms to describe the same attributes and values.

The largest study yet conducted into the link between Covid-19 and mental health problems has revealed that about one third of Covid survivors have also received a neurological or psychiatric diagnosis within six months of infection.

As thousands of retailers start welcoming back customers from 12 April, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) has reminded the general public that they have a key part to play to creating a safe environment for shop workers.

Organisations in England hoping to order free rapid lateral flow tests to test employees for asymptomatic coronavirus infection must register their interest by midnight on Monday 12 April 2021.

Following the tragedy at Grenfell and the subsequent review of Building Regulations led by Dame Judith Hackitt, a recommendation was made that the CROSS scheme (Confidential Reporting on Structural Safety) should be extended and strengthened to cover all engineering safety concerns.

Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford has set out plans to further relax Covid restrictions with the aim of taking Wales fully into Alert Level 3 by 17 May, subject to public health conditions remaining favourable.