Health and safety

New and updated

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  Employment law guide

  Gender pay gap reporting

  Updated to include information on the consultation on ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting.

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  Training

  Night working - line manager training

  Updated to reflect that the duty to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment came into force on 26 October 2024.

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  Employment law guide

  General health and safety duties

  Updated to reflect the impact of the Employment Rights Bill and the Government's accompanying policy paper on health & safety at work.

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  Policies and procedures

  Safe overseas travel policy

  Updated to cover the new employer duty to take reasonable steps to prevent workplace sexual harassment, in force from 26 October 2024.  

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  Policies and procedures

  Violence/aggression at work policy

  Updated to cover the new employer duty to take reasonable steps to prevent workplace sexual harassment, in force from 26 October 2024.  

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  Policies and procedures

  Lone working policy

  Updated to cover the new employer duty to take reasonable steps to prevent workplace sexual harassment, in force from 26 October 2024.  

• Type:

  Policies and procedures

  Alcohol or drug misuse policy

  Updated to cover the new employer duty to take reasonable steps to prevent workplace sexual harassment, in force from 26 October 2024.  

• Date:

  1 March 2024

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Podcast: COVID and other infectious diseases - what is the correct workplace etiquette now?

  The rules around COVID-19 were very clearly drawn in 2020. But what is the state of play now, not just in relation to COVID but to illness in the workplace generally? What should organisations do about employees who are nervous about returning to the workplace? Or about at-risk employees, particularly when infection rates are high? Or about long COVID - is it now treated as a disability?

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Risk assessment and hazard management

  Updated to reflect new responsibilities for persons responsible for fire safety arrangements, effective 1 October 2023.

• Type:

  How to

  How to carry out drug and alcohol testing of employees

  Updated to refer to newly published ICO guidance for employers on the data protection implications of drug and alcohol testing.