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Previous articles have given you information various things relating to e-cigs such as the laws relating to smoking at work and the use of e-cigs at work.
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There are many articles on the net about the positive benefits for your health of moving away from tobacco based cigarettes to their digital counterparts, but very few about the dangers that e-cigs can pose to animals (either your pets if you work from home, or other working animals such as guard dogs, farm cats or even farm animals). Continue reading
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Last updated on March 31st, 2016 at 12:38 pm
I was talking to a prospective client the other day when it struck me that despite all the adverts saying that it’s easy to build your own website using this or that “website builder” there’s a lot more involved than most people realise.
Of course, it’s something that I’ve known ever since I started building sites for people back in 1997/98 but in those days sites tended to be built by coders who understood the coding behind the site and , if you were lucky, knew how people reacted to design and content. Over the years this latter concept has interested me more and more – what does make people leave a site or conversely follow up and make a purchase or fill in a contact form on a website?
Sadly, the modern trend tends to that people want to build their own sites without understanding the basics, while that’s ok for a hobby site I do wonder about the logic behind building a website for your business like that. After all, you presumably use an accountant to do your accounts and tax, a solicitor if you need legal advice, an electrician for work that involves electricity, a cleaner for your offices, and may even use a specialist model maker for prototypes so why would you not use a specialist to build your websites? Continue reading
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Last updated on March 31st, 2016 at 12:39 pm
Smoking at work
Since the no-smoking laws were introduced in 2007, you might assume that by now everyone is aware of the smoking regulations that prohibit smoking at work and in some enclosed public places (most people are probably also aware that smoking is not allowed on public transport). The question is though, what exactly constitutes a “workplace” and what are the penalties for getting caught smoking there?
Despite what you may think, a work-place needn’t be an office or a building, for instance if you are a taxi firm, then your cars (even if they belong to your drivers) are classed as a workplace and must display a no -smoking sign and must not be smoked in (even by the passengers). Other “strange” work places are to delivery vehicles such as vans or lorries, or any vehicle used for business (for example those trailers that are used for corporate entertaining or act as a temporary office/sales-room at country fairs). Continue reading