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Health and Safety compliance check list
Health & Safety at work affects everyone, however small your business, including the self employed and employees. Every year over 200 people loos their lives at work in Britain and there are around 150,000 non-fatal injuries reported and an estimated 2 million suffer from ill-health cased or made worse by work (HSE 2008).
This fact sheet looks at the main aspects of health and safety law and your obligations as a business and employer.
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Achieving quality standard ISO 9000
Quality is a word often bandied around and is something that is easy to claim, yet difficult to substantiate unless your business has been accredited with a recognised quality standard. ISO 9000 is the group a quality standards that is universally accepted as being the framework around which effective Quality Management Systems (QMS) may be implemented.
This fact sheet looks at the areas ISO 9000 covers and what your business has to do to achieve it.
Selling online
As broadband availability in the UK has increased and cheap broadband means than more consumers now have access to fast connections, more businesses are looking to capitalise on this and start to actively sell online.
An online store (e-commerce site) has many advantages but also a number of pitfalls. This fact sheet looks at the basics of setting up a business to trade online and what issues you will need to consider.
Common reasons why small businesses fail
Starting up and running a small business successfully is not easy. There are many failures along the way and even the best of ideas can fail if the business is not run properly. The high proportion of new businesses that fail to make it past their first year can seem very daunting.
This fact sheet looks at some of the main reasons why new businesses fail.
Recovering unpaid debts
All business will at some time find themselves with debtors that are simply not paying despite numerous reminders and your best efforts chasing them for payment. In this case you may have to take steps to recover the debt and this fact sheet explains the issues to consider before taking action and also your options for recovering a debt.
This fact sheet looks at the options open to you for recovering unpaid debts.
How to forecast cash flow
A business can survive for a short time without sales or profits, but not without cash. It is cash which pays the bills and allows trading to continue. And if you are growing, and extending credit to more customers or need to invest in the business, the need for cash is greater. It is therefore essential that you are able to predict and forecast your cash flow position going forward.
This fact sheet takes you through the main elements of putting together a cash flow forecast.
Developing a Marketing Plan
Alongside your Business Plan, one of the most important documents you will produce for your business will be your marketing plan. In the current economic climate, many businesses are cutting their marketing spend, but now is the time to put in place steps to actively bring in new customers, maximise sales from your existing customers.
This fact sheet looks at the main stages to putting together a marketing plan with practical, non -argon advice for business owners.
A guide to recruiting staff
Staff can be your most valuable asset but may also be your biggest cost. The importance of getting the right member of staff for a small business is vital, not only in terms of their skills and experiences, but also their personality and commitment. For most business owners they have very little experience in the staff recruitment process.
This fact sheet seeks to outline the recruitment process and help you put in place an effective recruitment policy that will bring in the right calibre of candidate.
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