Corporate responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is used by leading companies as a strategic framework, through which all company activities are viewed. It is also known as Corporate Responsibility (CR) and sometimes as Corporate Citizenship. CSR is not a r...
Directors' responsibilities
Company directors are primarily responsible for the management of their companies and, generally, their duties are owed to the company. However, they also owe duties to the owners as a whole. In addition, they have responsibilities in respect of t...
Disability
A person is held to be disabled if they have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial long-term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. ‘Long-term’ is considered to be for more than 12 m...
Discrimination
UK law prohibits discrimination and harassment on a number of different grounds in all facets of employment, including recruitment, contractual terms, working conditions, promotions, transfers, dismissals and training. An employer must not discri...
Display screen equipment
Display Screen Equipment (DSE) is the term used to define electronic devices used at work, such as computers, laptops and handheld devices. The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 state that DSE includes “any alphan...
Electricity and electrical equipment
Electricity kills and injures people. In the UK, around 1,000 electrical accidents at work are reported to the HSE each year and about 25 people die of their injuries. A few milliamps (one-thousandth of one amp) is sufficient to cause serious inju...