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Your retail premises
Guides to help you find and effectively manage retail premises to ensure access for all and a safe retail environment.
Retail businesses and the environment
Guides to help your retail business lessen its impact on the environment and make a real difference on climate change.
Retailing and the law
Guides which summarise common legal issues which retail businesses must be aware of and comply with.
Employing people in your retail business
Guides which can help your retail business to understand employment issues, rights and how to comply with the law.
Rent business property
Guidance and tips on renting business property in Northern Ireland including commercial leases and landlord and tenant responsibilities
Explosives
Guides for businesses involved in the manufacture of explosives on industry issues including legal responsibilities
Tobacco
Guides to help you understand your responsibilities when running a tobacco manufacturing businesses
Business premises and rates - find a case study
Insight into how real businesses deal with premises and property issues on a practical level
Disabled access and facilities in business premises
Information on what adjustments you can make to ensure your business is accessible to disabled people.
How to improve access for people with disabilities
Change policies and procedures to improve disabled people's access to your business premises, products, and services.
When a person is considered to have a disability
Description of those people who are legally defined as disabled under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
Removing physical barriers to access
How to provide access to your services and products for people with disabilities.
Improve access and use of facilities for disabled employees
Make reasonable adjustments to physical features in the workplace to ensure equal access for staff with disabilities.
Seeking permission when improving access to business premises
The permission you might require when making changes to improve access for disabled people on your business premises.
Making our services accessible to disabled people - Lyric Theatre (video)
This video case study outlines how the Lyric Theatre’s premises, equipment, and services make its facilities accessible for all.
Fire safety and fire risk assessment
How businesses can identify fire risks, minimise the potential of fire on their premises and understand their duties to fire safety legislation.
Fire risk assessment
Carrying out a fire risk assessment and putting in place appropriate measures to ensure the risks are minimised.
Fire safety equipment and evacuation plans
You must be able to detect a fire quickly and have means of escape and equipment to fight the fire as appropriate.
Duties of the appropriate person for fire safety
How the responsible person must have a fire risk assessment in place and minimise risk using a fire management plan.
Fire safety and building work
Taking into account building regulations requirements for fire safety when building, extending or materially altering your business premises.