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Bury Business News

Bury Business News is a newsletter from Bury Council's Environmental Health and Trading Standards teams, which is designed to keep your business informed about the latest services, new legal requirements, scams and other matters that may affect your business.

How to contact us

Post: Environment and Development Services, Environmental Services, Textile Hall, Manchester Road, Bury, BL9 0DG

Phone: 0161 253 5353
E-mail: environmentalhealth@bury.gov.uk


Issue 7, November 2008

Articles include:

  • Healthy workplaces campaign
  • Making sense of risk assessment
  • Permit to pollute
  • Scores on the doors (rating food businesses scheme)
  • Changes in a consumer’s legal right to cancel a contract
  • Violence at work initiative
  • Registered Tradesman Scheme launched

Download Issue 7, Bury Business News (4 page, 154kb, pdf)


Issue 6, April 2008

Articles include:

  • The risks of working with asbestos
  • Broadcasting live football matches
  • False billing scams
  • Simple rules to keep empty commerical property safe
  • Noise at work in the music and entertainment sector
  • Fuel savings for freight operators

Download Issue 6, Bury Business News (4 page, 471kb, pdf)


Issue 5, November 2007

Articles include:

  • Tobacco age limit raised
  • Smokefree Bury - an update
  • Home Information Packs (HIPs)
  • New anti-money laundering rules
  • Health and safety in nail bars and salons

Download Issue 5, Bury Business News (4 page, 377kb, pdf)


Issue 4, April 2007

Articles include:

  • Smoke free Bury
  • New fire safety law and guidance documents
  • Overhaul of trading laws
  • The results of our business needs survey
  • FSB survey shows small firms made of strong stuff
  • 'No cold calling zone' launched

Download Issue 4, Bury Business News (4 page, 175kb, pdf)


Issue 3, January 2007

Articles include:

  • Duty of Care - Bury Council's waste management campaign
  • New smoke-free legislation
  • Workplace travelplans
  • Safer Food Better Business - new food hygiene legislation explained
  • Bury College's Business Solutions
  • Introduction to the Gambling Act 2005

Download Issue 3 Bury Business News (4 page, PDF, 315kb)


Issue 2, March 2006

Articles include:

  • reporting workplace accidents
  • falls from height
  • registered builders scheme
  • how to deal with cold call scams

Download Issue 2, Bury Business News (4 page, PDF, 170kb)


Issue 1, September 2005

Articles include:

  • reducing accidents in the catering business
  • workplace violence
  • business waste
  • changes in food business law

Download Issue 1, Bury Business News (4 page, PDF, 189Kb)