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Practical advice for business
 
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Keeping the workplace safe and your employees healthy

Importance of health and safety to your business

How protecting the welfare of employees and others benefits your business

Your responsibilities for health and safety

Overview of a business' legal duties to protect the welfare of employees and others

Meet minimum workplace standards

How to make sure your workplace meets minimum standards under health and safety law

Benefits of improving your environmental performance

How your business can benefit by tackling environmental issues

Your responsibilities for the environment

Complying with environmental legislation, and the business and cost benefits of protecting the environment

Assess your environmental compliance

This interactive tool will help you find out what you need to do to comply with environmental legislation

Business start-up organiser

Compile a personalised list of starting-up tasks and access resources to help you complete each one

 
 
 

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Starting up

 

Considering starting up?

 

Starting a business - meeting the challenges

 

Finding and managing the money

 

Business names & structures

 

Buying a business

 

Choosing and setting up premises

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Keeping the workplace safe and your employees healthy

 

Taxes, records and returns - getting started

 

VAT

 

Income, Corporation and other business taxes

 

PAYE and National Insurance

 

Becoming an employer for the first time

 

Sales and marketing

 

Financial control, operations and transport

 

Contracts and suppliers

 

IT and e-commerce for start ups

 

Importing and exporting

 

Protecting your business & ideas

 

Choosing advisers and services