This risk assessment for a shop or other business open to customers is designed to help you comply with your health and safety duties. If your business involves the general public coming to your premises eg a shop, cafe, salon etc, it is important to take health and safety seriously and carry out regular risk assessments. This risk assessment covers the most common hazards you might find in your

This step-by-step guide is designed to help you to fill in Form EX550, also known as an affidavit of service. You need this guide if you are owed money under an unpaid court judgment and want to force your debtor to attend court to answer questions about their finances. You need to send an affidavit of service to the court as part of the process. Forcing a person or business who owes you money to

A share certificate must be issued by your company to all shareholders. This template share certificate can be tailored to your company, and sent out to your shareholders to record the number, nominal value and class of the shares they hold. Every time new shares in your company are issued or existing shares change hands, the company must produce a share certificate and send it to the shareholder

This template cookie policy will allow you to set out how you use cookies on your app or website. It may also be referred to as a cookie notice. This template will help you to comply with your data protection and privacy obligations when you are using cookies on your website. It enables you to set out key information about what cookies you set and how users can change their preferences. Because no

This template Notice of a personal data breach (affected individuals) will allow you to produce a letter to send to any individuals who have been affected by a personal data breach in your business, where their personal data has been accidentally or illegally destroyed, lost or disclosed. You have a legal requirement to inform affected individuals where the breach carries a high risk to their

Use this step-by-step guide to form N446 to help you fill it in properly. You need the N446 form if you have an attachment of earnings order against a debtor in the County Court, but either they have stopped paying you or you think they have changed jobs (so payments have stopped) before your debt has been fully paid off. Form N446 is to ask the court to take action to deal with the stop in

You may choose to use this COVID-19 policy to explain to staff the steps you are taking to protect them from COVID-19. You can find further guidance about working safely during COVID-19 at Health and safety at work in relation to coronavirus . This COVID-19 policy includes policies on: Coronavirus symptoms and staying home; Working from home; Travel to and from work; Hygiene and cleanliness; and

Please note that this document has recently been updated. It can be used for employees whose child is due after 6 April 2024, or whose expected date of adoption placement is on or after 6 April 2024. If your employee's child is due to be born or placed with them before this date, this document will not apply. This notice can be sent to a staff member to confirm a change to their paternity leave

This is a guide to completing the paper SH01 form, which you will need to file with Companies House after issuing shares. This form confirms the details of the new shares issued and includes an updated statement of capital for your company. The paper SH01 should be used if your company is not registered for WebFiling. The form must be filed at Companies House within one month of the issue of

This step-by-step guide to filling in the UK trade mark application form guides you through the process of completing the paper application form for applying for a UK trade mark (Form TM3). This can be emailed to the IPO as a PDF, or posted. You will need to complete various details, such as owner details, description and class of trade mark, type of trade mark, priority date, and more. Usually

This step-by-step guide to form SD2 is designed to make filling in the statutory demand form simple for you. Form SD2 is the form to use if you are owed £5,000 or more by an individual and you want to threaten them with bankruptcy if they do not pay up. Statutory demands can be effective in proving you are serious about debt collection and showing you are prepared to take matters further if

This list of common disabilities sets out conditions that are commonly regarded as disabilities. It includes those which always qualify as disabilities, no matter what the actual effects on the individual who suffers from them, and those conditions which are most commonly classed as disabilities, provided there is a substantial or long-term effect on the person’s ability to carry out normal day-to

This template accident book for illness is suitable for you to record the necessary details of any work-related illnesses that crop up. It is a legal requirement for you to keep an accident book including illnesses if you normally have ten or more employees on your business premises at once. However, it is good practice to keep a record of work related illnesses even if you have fewer staff than

There are two main ways to sell your business – your company’s shareholders can sell their shares, or the company can sell its business and assets. This table summarises the important differences between the two, so that you can understand which might be the best way for you to sell your business.

This is an example automatic enrolment opt-out letter, to be given to eligible staff who have been automatically enrolled in your pension scheme but wish to opt out. When you notify your eligible staff of their automatic enrolment in your workplace pension scheme, you should tell them where to find this opt-out letter. Your staff member must complete this letter and return it to you in order for

This template Probation review form allows you to record the progress of your employee throughout their probation period. It is good practice to use a Probation review form to keep a record of how a staff member is progressing, set objectives for your staff member and assess their performance against those objectives during their probation period. This template form suggests key competencies to

This template accident book for injuries can be used to keep a record of work-related injuries, whether they are to an employee or a member of the public. You must keep an accident book, including injuries if there are usually ten or more employees at a time in your workplace. You must also keep a record of any injuries that are serious, regardless of how many employees you have. However, even for

This template accident book for near misses is for you to keep a record of any incidents that constitute a near miss. These are events that do not cause any actual illness or injury, but have the potential to be serious. You are legally required to record and report some types of near miss, known as dangerous occurrences. These include things like failures of lifting equipment or substantial

This checklist for responding to a request to stop processing data sets out the steps you should take when someone asks you to stop using their personal data. If you receive a request from an individual to stop using their data, you usually have one month within which to respond. This checklist provides a handy list of the steps you should take, as well as links to other useful template letters

A personal development review form can be used as part of a formal appraisal or performance review to assess and record your employee’s performance. It allows you to assess how well they have performed against their objectives, discuss any issues and set further objectives and a personal development plan. It might also be called a performance review form, a performance and development review form