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Take care when using creams to treat dry skin conditions as they can easily dry onto clothing, bedding and bandages making them more flammable.
How to reduce the risk of disease from your animal feed storage units.
Advises on how to consider light within the planning system.
Paper and cardboard production can cause significant pollution. This guide describes industry responsibilities for preventing pollution.
Safety leaflet on topical corticosteroids and withdrawal reactions to help patients and their carers to use these medicines safely.
What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
How the maritime industry should treat waste at sea and in ports, reduce oil and air pollution, and control ozone-depleting substances.
How to deal with wild birds causing a health or safety issue, or a problem on your farm or fishery and when you need a licence.
Guidance on the handling of slurry and manure to help reduce the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for buffer strips.
Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
Guidance for living safely with respiratory infections, including coronavirus (COVID-19).
Information and advice on cleaning sex-on-premises venues.
These documents explain how OHID is approaching reduction and food and drink reformulation as part of the government’s obesity strategy.
Increase sustainability throughout the lifecycle of your technology.
If you use, produce or supply wood packaging material (WPM) to move goods to or from the EU or the rest of the world, you must make sure it meets international standards.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
What your business must do to prevent air pollution - local emissions controls, Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs), eliminating dark smoke, permits for boilers
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