Violence and aggression at work can have a serious impact on your workers physical and mental health. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has refreshed its guidance on violence at work to help you protect your workers. It has been updated to: simplify the navigation to help you easily find the information you need remove outdated content and replace it with up-to-date practical guidance remind you that HSE’s definition of violence includes aggression, such as...
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Learning and Work Institute recently evaluated Welsh Government’s Healthy Working Wales: In-Work Support Service (IWS). The evaluation sought to glean key lessons from the project that focussed on South West and North West Wales ahead of a nation-wide rollout. IWS was a Welsh Government and European Social Fund funded programme. It aimed to help people manage their health and stay in work. This was through early intervention, providing workers with rapid free access to a...
Celebrating the Fintech Professionals of Wales, the Fintech Awards Wales takes place on 8 September 2023 at Tramshed, Cardiff and entries and nominations are now open. This year’s catergories are: Fintech Start-up Fintech Company Fintech Scale-up Fintech Leader New Product Fintech for Good Best Growth Story Best Academic Programme of the Year Supporting Fintech / FS Companies Fintech Exporter Rising Fintech Star Best Place To Work Cyber Security Team Best Use of AI Apprentice Best...
Stop Food Waste Day is the largest single day of action in the fight against food waste and takes place on 26 April 2023. Food waste is central to some of the key challenges facing the world today, including hunger and poverty, climate change, health and wellbeing and the sustainability of agriculture and oceans. Wasting food is also a waste of the energy to grow, harvest, process and cook, and food waste in landfill can...
HMRC publishes the Employer Bulletin 6 times a year, giving employers and agents the latest information on topics and issues that may affect them. The April edition of Employer Bulletin has articles on: reporting expenses and benefits for the tax year ending 5 April 2023 the annual ‘Tell ABAB’ survey gives small businesses a big voice in the tax system understanding your obligations on right to work and National Minimum Wage anti-money laundering supervision YouTube...
The people of Wales are being asked to nominate the most remarkable women in their lives, as the Chwarae Teg Womenspire Awards get even bigger and better for 2023! The gender equality charity has opened nominations for its annual celebration, which recognises the achievements and contributions of exceptional women from all walks of life. The Chwarae Teg Womenspire Awards 2023 have nine categories open to women, as follows: Community Champion Woman in Sport Rising Star...
The World Intellectual Property Day is celebrated every year on 26 April. The theme for 2023 is “Women and IP: Accelerating innovation and creativity” and celebrates the “can do” attitude of women inventors, creators and entrepreneurs around the world and their ground-breaking work. Women in all regions are shaping the world through their imagination, ingenuity and hard work, but often face significant challenges in accessing the knowledge, skills, resources and support they need to thrive...
Pride Cymru is a volunteer-led charity that works to promote the elimination of discrimination be it on the grounds of sexual orientation, gender, race, religion or ability. Pride Cymru’s Parade returns to the streets of Cardiff on 17 and 18 June 2023, an immersive and visually spectacular annual celebration of equality and diversity achievements and community support. Any businesses, regardless of size, can enter the Pride Cymru #PrideCymru2023 parade together with employees, for further information...
Open to applications from today (19/04/23) two new pilot discretionary funds are being made available from Event Wales. In a specially-convened industry webinar hosted today and following on from the development of the new Events Strategy for Wales, considered applications to the Sector Development Fund or the Sustainability Innovation Fund for work during the 2023/2024 or 2024/2025 periods are now invited. Both sector development and event sustainability were identified in the new Strategy as ongoing...