Advice to traders
## NEWS RELEASE - April 2012 ##
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Good Hotels Guide
To help accommodation providers meet the necessary standards for providing short-stay accommodation to visitors to London particularly during the Queens Jubilee and Olympics 2012 Year we have developed a Good Hoteliers Guide (pdf 409kb) to advise you on all the stages from website advertising, booking reservations to managing your premises through implementing good practice.
Have you devised an action plan yet for the Olympics 2012 Games to deal with business logisitical challenges or the impact of travel delays on staffing levels? Go to London 2012 Toolkits for more information.
Advertising and Trading within Olympic Designated Zone
The London 2012 website now includes information explaining the special rules on advertising and outdoor trading that is to be implemented within the Olympic designated zones.
If you intend to operate within the designated zones during the 2012 Olympic Games you will likely need to have prior authorisation and follow permitted restrictions.
If you require any other information or guidance about the Olympics, please contact the Duty Trading Standards officer on 0208 753 3992 or email: tradingstandards@lbhf.gov.uk
Go here for further information on the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham’s 2012 Olympics preparations.
ERWIN (Everything Regulation, Whenever It’s Needed), the national one-stop web site for all your Trading Standards business related information. Guidance on all aspects of Trading Standards issues can be found here and with links to a number of relevant resources on the web. ERWIN ensures that you can find all the information you need. The site provides interpreted, simplified and prioritised information, which covers all major Trading Standards legislation and is accessed by clicking on the logo below (takes you to an external site).
Please find relevant guidance on our other web-pages to help you understand the specific laws. Alternatively you can obtain more guidance from the following websites through their business links:
Trading Standards Institute: http://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/
Ask Cedric: http://www.askcedric.org.uk/.
Please note that these external websites are not controlled by us and may not contain up-to-date information.
Training Opportunities for business
We have teamed up with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to help your business or organisation stay on the right side of the law.
Training is delivered near Earls Court. Please discuss with us if you would like training at your premises by contacting the
Public
Health Training Service
on 020 7361 3002 or email publichealth.training@rbkc.gov.uk
Buy With Confidence Scheme
The Buy with Confidence scheme brings together a list of local gardeners, plumbers, builders and many other types of businesses, which have been individually checked for trustworthiness and compliance with consumer protection laws. Trading Standards Officers visit and vet every applicant and only if they pass stringent checks are they accepted onto the scheme and can they display the Buy with Confidence logo.
To get details of firms you can trust or to apply to be a member you can visit the interactive website at www.buywithconfidence.gov.uk or call 08454 04 05 06 and remember to look out for the Buy with Confidence logo below to identify scheme members.
Further information on the Buy With Confidence Scheme (pdf)
