With budgetary restraint now widespread, AIM accredited venues offer event buyers firm reassurances of professionalism and value for money, writes the Meetings Industry Association

Roger Bibbings, occupational safety adviser at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), gives his response to Lord Young’s review of health and safety, published in October

Choosing an academic venue to hold your conference or event can offer value for money, without a compromise on product or service, writes Kirstie Danzey, Nottingham Conferences

Problems such as back pain are a major cause of sickness absence in office-based work. Richard Graveling highlights what to consider when setting up an ergonomically-sound workplace

Local and national government professionals had the opportunity to get up to speed on the latest issues facing the public sector at the recent Public Sector Credit Conference

For most conference visitors part of the attraction of coming to London is the almost endless list of fantastic downtime activities, from sight-seeing to shopping to eating out

Unpaid debt, such as council tax and rent, is a growing problem and local authorities are bearing the brunt of it, says Kerry Walsh, head of Training & Events, Institute of Credit Management

Malcolm Fergusson, head of Climate Change at the Environment Agency, tells us about the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme and what the EA is doing to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions