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Guidance for living safely with respiratory infections, including coronavirus (COVID-19).
Guidance for people who have been diagnosed with a mpox infection and who have been advised to self-isolate at home.
Paper and cardboard production can cause significant pollution. This guide describes industry responsibilities for preventing pollution.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
How to carry out a risk assessment if you are applying for a bespoke permit that includes discharging hazardous chemicals and elements to surface water.
Public health principles for reducing the spread of respiratory infections, including COVID-19, in the workplace.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
How to install and use tactile paving surfaces to help visually impaired and other pedestrians recognise potential hazards and other features in roads, rail and other locations.
Information on inspecting garden and boundary walls
As the owner or occupier of land with a public right of way across it, you must keep the route visible and not obstruct or endanger users.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for surface cleaning.
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