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Why businesses working on building sites should make tackling packaging waste a priority and what the benefits are.

Practical tips on how your business can engage with suppliers to help to reduce packaging waste at construction sites.

Quality management processes and the standards that you should follow when producing recycled aggregates.

When you can use recycled and secondary aggregates in construction projects and in what form they can be used.

How to make sure that you use automation and technology efficiently at your materials recovery facility.

How to make sure that you use your staff in the most efficient way at your materials recovery facility.

How waste contractors and material recovery facilities can improve waste management practices on construction sites.

The waste problems that plasterers face and how they can reduce costs, waste and their environmental impact.

How working to reduce or eliminate construction waste at the design stage can benefit your construction projects.

How architects and building designers can apply the designing out waste principles to building projects.

Key benefits to contractors when reducing project waste, such as lower disposal costs and carbon emissions.

Information on the new UK(NI) marking and when your business needs to use it for construction products.

Changes which businesses making construction products available on the market in Northern Ireland need to be aware of.

Guidance for businesses placing construction products on the Northern Ireland market and the correct markings to use.

A breakdown for your business of the accepted markings on construction products for different markets.

Practical information for placing construction products on the Northern Ireland market and unfettered access provisions.

How to identify any potential causes of harm or injury in your workplace as part of a risk assessment by walking around, looking at records and talking to staff.

The key steps that all businesses should follow when carrying out a health and safety risk assessment to identify and mitigate hazards and comply with the law.

Key steps to maintain health and safety in your care service business including staff, premises, communication, equipment, hygiene, waste, training and risks.

Use thorough employee checks and training to make sure your staff can provide the service your clients require in a business that provide care services.

Health, hygiene and safety in kitchens, wash areas and when dealing with laundry, waste and hazardous substances in businesses that provide care services.

Dealing with health and safety issues for employees working in care service businesses from stress to lifting injuries, violence and hazardous substances.

Minimising workplace hazards and making your equipment and premises as user-friendly as possible in a business that provides care services, eg a care home.

How to register a care service business (such as a nursery, residential care home or clinic) with the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA)

Assess the specific risks to care services businesses and keep clients and staff free from harm in creches, playgroups, residential care homes and clinics.