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AUGUST 2013 PRO INSTALLER
PRO BUSINESS
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New guidance to help with health and safety
The Heath and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched new guidance to help make it easier for larger organisations and businesses to understand how to manage health and safety.
The completely refreshed and enhanced ‘Managing for Health and Safety’ guidance (also known as HSG65) is now available online at: http://www.hse.gov.uk/managing/
The guidance aims to help business leaders, owners, directors, trustees and line-managers and is split into four key sections: 1) Core elements of managing for health and safety 2) Are you doing what you need to? 3) Delivering effective arrangements 4) Resources The improved information will also be of value to workers and their representatives and the third section will be of great help to those responsible for putting in place or overseeing their organisation’s arrangements for health and safety including health and safety practitioners and training providers. The Managing for Health and Safety website is part of a suite of free guidance for businesses of all types and sizes. It is accompanied by Health and Safety Made Simple and Health and Safety Toolbox, which are primarily aimed at supporting the needs of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Andrew Cottam, HSE’s lead author of ‘Managing for Health and Safety’ explained: “Following the guidance is not compulsory, unless specifically stated, and businesses are free to take other action, but if they do follow the guidance they will normally be doing enough to comply with the law.” www.hse.gov.uk/managing/
Standing Out From The Crowd
Within a very short period of time the composite door market has become extremely competitive and is likely to become even more so in the future. In an age where we all conform to every new standard that is bombarded in our direction how do we truly stand apart?
The team at Dual Aspect Glass has a simple business plan that is achieving results and that is to ‘supply the highest quality of decorative glazing for composite doors at the most competitive market price’.
Jeremy Town, Managing Director for Dual Aspect comments, “We have a promise to our existing and potential customers that we will continue to innovate more, offer more exclusivity and offer more cost effective decorative products than our competi-
‘All our products are fully UV stable and have been extensively tested to ensure the highest quality.’
tors. We will do this from a UK source to guarantee service and will beat prices on many products including resin bevels, fusion style designs, screen printed glass, triple glazed products and even colour spray systems for composite doors. “All our products are fully UV stable and have been extensively tested to ensure the very highest quality. I welcome users of composite doors to challenge us to quote them keener prices yet still deliver the finest quality products.” For more details and a copy of the Dual Aspect Glass marketing support package call now on 07702 308374.
Red tape challenge: unnecessary insolvency processes to be removed
Proposals that could save creditors over £36m a year by cutting needless processes during insolvency proceedings have been announced in a consultation document published by Business Minister Jo Swinson.
The proposals cut out unnecessary red tape without removing important protections for creditors, and include modernising the way in which insolvency practitioners (IPs) communicate with creditors. The measures, contained in the consultation document, Red Tape Challenge – changes to insolvency law to reduce unnecessary regulation and simplify procedures, also include: • reducing the number of physical meetings of creditors (which are often poorly attended) by only requiring one where the office-holder thinks it necessary or where at least 10 per cent of creditors ask for one; • reducing the role of the courts for consensual creditor petitions (where judicial input is not needed); • using more electronic communication with creditors, with links to website information; • reducing the need to seek prior approval of creditors for certain actions clearly in their interest; • abolishing unnecessary IP record keeping requirements; • allowing office-holders to rely on the insolvent’s records when paying small claims, reducing the need for creditors to complete claim forms; • reducing costs by providing that where the cost of making a very small dividend payment exceeds a minimum amount, it is not made but instead should be used for wider benefit of creditors; and • streamlining and modernising the process by which IPs report to the Secretary of State on the conduct of directors of insolvent companies. The consultation document can be found at http://www.bis.gov. uk/insolvency/Consultations.