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Health and safety considerations during bad weather and storms, including assessing the risks and taking action to protect workers.

The benefits to your business of having good health and safety practices including protecting your staff injuries and illness and reducing absences.

How to meet your business' basic health and safety responsibilities to protect your employees, customers and visitors and what the benefits are to you.

Your legal responsibilities to report accidents and illnesses under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR).

When your business will need a qualified first-aider or a person in charge of first aid arrangements and how to appoint someone and provide training.

A list of what should be included in your business' first-aid box, such as plasters and dressings, and what you should not include in your first aid box.

Guidance for providing first aid and recording and reporting accidents and illnesses including RIDDOR responsibilities and what to include in a first aid box.

Top tips for running events safely include carrying out a risk assessment, planning for emergencies, managing the flow of traffic and crowds, and working with local organisations.

Planning for incidents and emergencies if you are an event organiser, including creating an emergency plan, evacuation procedures and handing over to the emergency services.

Health and safety considerations for the site and venue of events, including design, risks, facilities, crowd management and transport.

How to plan, manage and organise a safe event including risk assessment, training, monitoring and review.

What you should consider regarding health and safety when you are running events, including organisation, site suitability, facilities and emergency planning.

How to set up online payment for your rate bill through Billpay.

Download individual sections of the Invest Northern Ireland Employers' Handbook.

The Employers' Handbook from Invest Northern Ireland outlines legal essentials and best practice guidelines for effective HR management.

Sample letters and application forms to help you manage your workers' rights to maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave.

Introducing policies and procedures to reduce incidences of disease and infections at work to protect your employees, clients and any other visitors.

Regular supervision reduces the risks of lone working and flags up areas where there may be problems.

Advice on minimising the risks involved in working away from the office including examples of common remote working risks and how to reduce them.

Risks in the home - such as poor lighting or equipment - may harm homeworkers, their families and others, assess these risks and take action where needed.

Look for risks lone workers might present to members of the public - and risks the public might present to them, assess these risks and take action where needed.

Your security procedures must cover the extra risks lone workers face from accidents or violence at work to help you carry out a loner worker risk assessment.

Examples of the special risks lone workers may face and how these may apply to different individuals to help you carry out a lone working risk assessment.

Many employees and self-employed people are lone workers - at least part of the time, here are definitions the types of a lone worker, and some examples.

The legal responsibilities for managing the extra risks faced by people who work alone, and how to reduce these risks to protect your lone workers.