Health and safety inspections: what you need to know and how you can ensure compliance
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been reminding businesses that it is continuing to carry out spot checks and inspections to ensure their people are working safely. Those visits also ensure any measures that have been put in place remain in line with UK and devolved government guidance.
Direct procurement for water customers: managing change, managing performance, managing disputes
On 3 September water companies in England and Wales submitted their business plans to regulator, Ofwat who are now in an intense period of assessing and ranking those plans.
For the first time, Ofwat is challenging companies in England and Wales to think differently about how they procure major infrastructure.
Some of the issues facing companies in stepping up to the Ofwat challenge have been experienced first hand in Scotland.