Working Brief: Getting to grips with health and safety
Uunder The Health and Safety at Work (NI) Order 1978 all employers have a statutory duty to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all their employees.
Inside Opinion
Research, innovation and business development...
Our universities have a good record in these fields, but can they deliver more impressive results?
- Housing market must adjust to realistic prices
- Same credit crunch, same crisis: but what impact?
- Executive decisions vital to safeguard NI Water’s future
- Let Belfast Port lift the economy to new heights
- Boom times for border as shoppers flock north
- Clutching a defeat from the jaws of easy victory
- Can economically inactive be made FIT for working?
- Just let wind huff, puff and heat our buildings
- Holding the regulator to account over gas prices
- On the economy: Sparks between generators
- On the economy: Budget hype exceeds the real allocation
- On the economy: Cash job no hanging offence
With inflation looming, the ECB has tough choices ahead
These days, it is as hard for a central bank to keep its reputation intact as a Victorian lady captured by pirates.
- Can ‘golden rule’ be met?
- Give us serenity to see out economic turmoil
- Donkey image must not replace the Tiger
- Innovation failure is costly to global trade
- Building trade collapse may see Cowen splash the cash
- Dublin Dividend: Few sit pretty over no cut in interest rates
- Dublin dividend: Playing the blame game
- View from Dublin: Building sector in good heart
- View from Dublin: Don't write off Emerald Isle just yet
How to bag a bargain and sell for profit
Small-scale property developers have been doing it for years: buy a run-down house, do it up, and sell it at a decent profit. But it seems that in America, where most internet trends begin, they’re doing the same with websites.
Compelling case for cancer jab
Parents of young girls, and young boys for that matter, should be sensitive about sexual activity at an early age: sex too soon, or outside the right state of mind, may be physically and emotionally damaging.
- Tourism industry must look to future
- Business Viewpoint: Just be yourself - tourists like it
- Business Viewpoint: Skills need to improve at top
- Business Viewpoint: The status quo really must go
- Business Viewpoint: High churn rate a worrying trend
- Viewpoint: Business crime on the agenda
- Business Viewpoint: Research talent on our doorstep
- Business Viewpoint: Time to improve tourism product
New dogs, it’s an old trick
As traditional as floods in August are the ever more resourceful attempts by the PR industry to capitalise on the “silly season”.
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Columnist Comments
• View From Dublin: Give us serenity to see out economic turmoil
The famous prayer attributed to the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr asks for the serenity to accept the things one cannot change, and the courage to change the things one can. Shrewdly, Dr Niebuhr also asked for the wisdom to know the difference.
• Executive decisions vital to safeguard NI Water’s future
NORTHERN Ireland Water (NIW) is too important as a public utility to be a shuttlecock between uncertain political direction and aggressive regulatory intervention.
• View From London: A spoonful of Reaganism can help the inflation medicine to go down
Two weeks ago we learned that retail sales in the UK fell 3.9% in June and that Tim Besley, a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, voted at the last committee meeting for an interest rate increase. This combination is rather intriguing.
Business Poll: Corporation Tax?
Should Northern Ireland be allowed to adopt the same rate of Corporaton Tax as the Republic?
Should Northern Ireland be allowed to adopt the same rate of Corporaton Tax as the Republic?
| Yes |
 74% |
| No |
 26% |
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- Drilling gets underway off south Irish coast
- Compelling case for cancer jab
- Libyan and Icelandic investment for Irish Oil Company
- Nominations are in for Belfast’s Best Builder
- Belfast City Airport curbs set to be relaxed
- Disharmony at iTunes
- Aer Lingus plans sweeping cuts
- Interest rates put on hold at 5%
- Strong euro sends Irish food shoppers north of the border
- 2008 Belfast Telegraph Property awards launched
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Poll: Tasers and the police
Do you support the use of Tasers by the PSNI?
Do you support the use of Tasers by the PSNI?
| Yes, it is better than using firearms |
57% |
| Yes, but only in exceptional circumstances |
23% |
| No, I'm genuinely concerned about the safety of Tasers |
9% |
| No, the police should not have these weapons |
11% |
Keane signs Healy
Do you think David Healy will be a success at Sunderland?