Choosing the Best Safety Vest for the Job When it comes to buying safety vests safety managers and procurement departments have an overwhelming number of choices. This is great, since...
Safety Slogans in the Workplace There's so much going on in the workplace that it can be hard to keep safety in constant focus. Safety slogans provide powerful messages and reminders that...
Demystifying Risk Assessments Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, all employers have a statutory requirement to protect their employees, and others, from harm or injury,...
False self-employment: know your workforce employment status Like most companies, you may at some point outsource work to self-employed contractors due to a number of business needs. But what is...
Top tips on how to conduct an effective virtual interview The covid pandemic has turned working lives upside down for many people both inside and outside of the workplace. Remote...
The problem with overlooking ‘soft and fluffy’ HR Over the last ten years of advising many hundreds of different owner-managed businesses across a vast range of different sectors, it has...
5 questions to ask when you’re considering redundancies Right now, life as an SME is tough. The stark reality of constantly moving goalposts combined with the uncertainty of where the...
Temporary Home Working As businesses start to take action against the second wave of Coronavirus and reintroduce temporary homeworking for many of their employees, they must remember that as an...
Living with uncertainty The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has turned our usual lives, the plans we have made, upside down. We did not think it would be like this now, where...
When it comes to workplace culture, actions speak louder than words As I reach 10 years at Howarths, with seven as Managing Director, I sense I am really starting...
