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SME health and safety training can be done simply using low-cost items, an expert has emphasised.
According to Adrian Simpson, managing director of the Health and Safety Group, many small businesses undergoing company formation avoid health and safety training because they think it is "expensive or time-consuming".
However, Mr Simpson emphasised that a business start-up with five or six employees can be "kitted out" for the training for under £100.
He explained: "Businesses with five employees or more have certain responsibilities to engage with and training is one of them.
"Small businesses rarely know what they need to do and they tend to try and avoid it instead of engaging it."
He continued: "Quite often, if it is a start-up company with five or six people, we can kit them out for under £100 [with] information that takes minutes to impart and that can control a whole load of risks very easily and very quickly."
According to experts, videos and booklets can be a highly effective way of getting health and safety information across.
Most are no more than 20 minutes long and many provide all the information small business employees need.
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