HEALTH & SAFETYSubletting Your Spare Floor: 9 Duties You Take On
Letting out surplus desks makes you something closer to a landlord. The 9 duties you acquire, and the ones you cannot pass down the chain.
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Expert perspectives on health & safety, compliance, and industry best practices
HEALTH & SAFETYLetting out surplus desks makes you something closer to a landlord. The 9 duties you acquire, and the ones you cannot pass down the chain.
HEALTH & SAFETYThere is no legal interval for reviewing a risk assessment. The duty is triggered by events. The 4 answers, and why annual is a default not a rule.
HEALTH & SAFETYPAT testing is not required by law. The law requires maintenance. 5 things that clears up, including how often an office actually needs to do anything.
HEALTH & SAFETYSafety decisions cost nothing at design stage and a fortune to retrofit. 11 things to put in the fit-out brief before the drawings are signed.
HEALTH & SAFETYModern slavery statements and supplier assurance both rest on facts about working conditions. The 8 safety questions that sit behind them.
HEALTH & SAFETYNothing requires a calendar. But arrangements decay when nothing triggers a look. 12 months, 12 actions, for an office-based business with entities abroad.
HEALTH & SAFETYSupport and service teams absorb abuse through chat, email and phone. 4 duties employers owe them, and why October 2026 changes the position.
HEALTH & SAFETYDiligence ends at completion and the duties start the same day. The 9 health and safety gaps that open after an acquisition, and how to close them.
HEALTH & SAFETYLOLER reaches the passenger lift in your office. The 4 questions that decide whether the duty is yours, and what a thorough examination means.
HEALTH & SAFETYSafety signs are a last resort, not a control. The 8 things the regulations require, and why over-signing weakens the signs that matter.
HEALTH & SAFETYRestructuring is a change to working conditions, and change is one of the six areas an assessment must cover. The 5 safety questions nobody asks.
HEALTH & SAFETYPeriod and listed offices create real conflicts between safety duties and what you may alter. The 3 tensions, and how they are actually resolved.