Select year from list below:

2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007

1st Quarter 2000

The Future Financial Health of the Launderette.
A Risky Wager (Understanding the rules and Regulations for coping with the minimum wage).
Insurance Matters.
You’re ‘investors’ in people.
Consultation document on part-time work.

2nd Quarter 2000

Market Intelligence.
Have you registered for effluent discharge?
Mandatory Health & Safety Poster.
Do your staff really know what is expected of them?
Employment Law: Don’t be dismissive.
Minding your own business.
Insurance Matters.
Tips from the top.

3rd Quarter 2000

It’s the Look that says ‘Welcome’.
Promoting Back Pain Awareness.
Euro prompts name change.
Health and Safety, now that Autumn’s here.
Get a drip tray.
‘Dock’ Brief.
You wouldn’t by any chance be thinking of selling your launderette?
Insurance Matters: In the Heat of the Night.
Health and Safety Checklist.

4th Quarter 2000

A stronger and more influential body.
FSB Update.
Group ops. Reflect on a ‘Steady as you go’ Year.
In Memoriam – Mr Robin Phillips of Warner Howard Group and Mr Gavin Blanchard,
associate editor of ‘Laundry and Cleaning News’.
In a common cause.
Insurance Matters: Why have insurance if you can’t claim?
Safety in Launderettes.
HSE update on current regulations.
Health and Safety page.
The end of an era.
Making the connection.

1st Quarter 2001

Asbestos revisited – the continuing saga.
Media and MPs back CCL promotion.
Countdown to Clean UK.
Your response to NALI’s CCL initiative.
Money, money, money…
What are VCTs?
Contracts for gas and electricity supply.
Your guide to industrial and Commercial gas and electricity suppliers.
Making the connection.

2nd Quarter 2001

‘Surfing’ for pleasure.
No risk assessment – then you’re at risk.
Sequel to the ‘Encapsulating’ Asbestos story.
Insurance Matters.
MPs urged to reflect on CCL.
They’re playing the ‘weighting’ game!
Act promptly on complaints.

3rd Quarter 2001

Bourbon Street and all that jazz.
Supply and servicing problems.
Insurance Matters.
Fire precautions.
Health and Safety at Work.

4th Quarter 2001

When all else fails – be self-reliant.
Pay rates in East Anglia lead the way.
In Memoriam – Ernest Hardaker.
Pick-up and delivery service.
Getting the Police involved.
On a Personal Note.

1st Quarter 2002

Getting to grips with customers’ (ever changing rights!).
Compliance with the Law is not an option!
Proposed new (Asbestos) Code of Practice.
NALI acknowledgement in FSB asbestos report.
Insurance Matters – Cost-cutting is a dangerous policy.
Contracts for electricity and gas.
How to win Customers and influence Profits!
The bank that didn’t want our money!

2nd Quarter 2002

The Inland Revenue wants its pound of (tax) flesh!
The Solvent Emissions Directive.
FSB Policy Statement supports NALI stance on asbestos.
New talks on fire safety laws.
Insurance matters – the public represents a potential liability!
Tax reductions favour Companies.
A way of life that continues to attract the entrepreneur.
Parliamentary Written Answers.

3rd Quarter 2002

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
Insurance Matters – Policyholders jointly pick up the bill.
Parliamentary Written Answers.
Testing our ‘Loadstar’ Dryers.

4th Quarter 2002

Business changes are inevitable.
NOLA meeting – Water to do!
New Legislation challenge to coin-op dry cleaning.
CORGI registration dilemma.
Business (and costs) on the up and up.
Asbestos update.
Insurance Matters - Why does a launderette need special insurance?
The Employment Act 2002.

1st Quarter 2003

Training Centres for CORGI recognition.
Thumb up – or a thumb down?
Insurance Matters – the doctrine of utmost good faith.
Statutory Procedures in Disciplinary Actions.
All you need to know about Paypoints.

2nd Quarter 2003

Lincolnshire launderette gas explosion.
In Memoriam – John Mitchell.
Twelve into One does go!
Parliamentary Written Answers.
Insurance Matters – handling customers’ claims.
Business Intelligence.
Health and Safety Checklist.

3rd Quarter 2003

Never is so much (potentially) lost.
It’s no less a Public Health danger than tobacco!
G’day NALI (from ‘Down Under’)
Compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act.
Insurance Matters – Insurance Premiums to fall in line with climatic changes.
Laundromat business powered by tradition - and the motorcar!
New Format Accident Record Book.

4th Quarter 2003

Launderette business burned by sun factor.
Click on to CORGI.
We’ve been there, done it, got the T-shirt!
Government ‘sacrifices’ coin-op dry cleaning.
Insurance Matters – Be peaceful, diplomatic - and remove temptation.
Employment Legislation: Discrimination.

1st Quarter 2004

Advertising for free.
Water, water everywhere – and not a drop we drink.
Air Supply for gas-fired water heaters.
Health and Safety requirements for Launderettes.
Insurance Matters – Why add-on ‘Terrorism Risk’ insurance may not be too high a price to pay!
Legally Speaking.
Mr Speaker!

2nd Quarter 2004

Compliance is the best form of damage limitation.
Chairman reflects on the liability in the small print.
Insurance Matters – The Claims Professionals.
Electrical Safety in the Launderette.
D-day veteran.
NALI’s army of secret recruiters.
Broadbent hydro-extractors.
Mr Speaker!

3rd Quarter 2004

Industry buoyancy encourages interest from entrepreneurs.
Chairman reflects on ‘Making a good impression’.
Insurance Matters – In cases of insurance fraud you are the victim!
Retirement of launderette personality Peter Lowery.
Health and Safety – Consider changes that are feasible and realistically affordable.
Guide to NALI’s Coin-Op Laundry Exhibition.
The Landlord & Tenant Act.

4th Quarter 2004

All you have to do is ask…
London Underground failed to derail NALI coin-op laundry event.
Chairman reflects on ‘prices and posters’.
Maintenance of portable electrical equipment.
Insurance Matters – Normal business to be resumed as soon as possible.
A Risk Assessment for a typical launderette with dry cleaning.
Obituary and tribute – Victor D Webb.
Brush up on your health and safety awareness.

1st Quarter 2005

Education! Education! Education!
S.E.D. Deadlines for Operators with Dry Cleaning equipment.
That NALI ‘Check List’ is important!
Rate Reduction and a smoke free zone.
Insurance Matters – ‘Financial Services Authority’.
Fire Safety Regulations update.
Looking for a new gas and/or electricity supplier?

2nd Quarter 2005

The electorate has made its choice.
Chairman’s comment: Orlando – here I come!
The ever present threat of spontaneous combustion.
Insurance Matters p Is your business always attended?
Employment Matters – Don’t ignore that request for flexible working!
Written terms and conditions of employment.

3rd Quarter 2005

Investing for profit.
‘Pick-lock’ thieves target launderettes.
Why remove asbestos-containing materials when encapsulating is the answer.
Obituary – veteran of the laundry industry since 1931 – Mr Mal Deeley.
Chairman’s comment – To change or not to change…
Encouraging support for NOLA exhibition.
Do you have employers liability insurance?
Insurance Matters – Terrorism!
Employment Matters – When is a resignation not counted as a resignation?

4th Quarter 2005

Coin-operated Dry Cleaning Machines - Deferral of PPC Permit Applications.
The Housing Act 2004 and Fire Safety.
Is it now too dangerous to go to Work?
New British Standard.
Winter Perils.
A commitment to Service Standards vital to Meet Future Challenges.
Direct Members' Representative Leeds NALI Council for 2005-2006.
Bruce Herring Takes 'Centre Stage' in new NALI Council Line-Up.
New NALI Website in Place to Herald Start of 2006.
Grumpy Old Man!
Good Show, NOLA!
"A Day " and "U Day".
Government measures to tackle workplace violence.

1st Quarter 2006

Obituary: Armstrong chief and war-time mines ‘killer’.
25 years service to launderette health & safety.
What is dangerous about asbestos?
NALI meet with DTI over utilities’ costs.
My new neighbour is a Bulldozer!
Chairman’s comment: The nuclear option.
Editor’s comment: Need for viable service charges.
Employment legislation: Beware of an advertisement that brings unwanted response!
Insurance matters: Current trends assessment in launderette insurance.

2nd Quarter 2006

NALI plan membership extension.
Exemption for coin-op drycleaners.
Health and Safety: Asbestos update.
Don’t let an accident ‘waiting to happen’ simply happen.
Editor’s comments: United we’ll stand.
Now we’re on local radio!
NALI representative’s views on DTI meeting.
Chairman’s comments: Lemmings to the slaughter?
Employment legislation: Now is the time to review employment practices!
Insurance matters: The small print.

3rd Quarter 2006

NALI president to retire.
A wake-up call for duvet cleaning!
First-Aid box reminder.
SED Amendments approved.
Editor’s comments: A changing world!
Less light in a carbon footprint.
Over-zealous EHO comes to call.
Chairman's comments: A can of worms
- or a duvet full of mites?
Insurance matters: Fun (or perhaps not) in the sun...
Employment legislation.

4th Quarter 2006

New NALI President.
Associate Membership initiative.
Chairman's keynote AGM address.
London trade show: Report and pictures.
New faces in NALI management team.
Cash-flow confusion.
Certificate of Recognition.
Chairman's comments: The question of methane.
Health and Safety: Fire Safety risk assessment.
Gas dryer maintenance.
Insurance matters: It can pay to pay a little more!
Employment legislation: The 'last post' sounds for cigarette smokers!

1st Quarter 2007

Shell Gas Direct asked to make an offer” on bulk price discount scheme.
‘Shock-theme leaflet to prompt Associate- Membership take-up.
Waste Recycling Regulations.
Launderette ‘Love Bug’ now gets mobile!
Mutual benefits of ‘Associate Membership’.
Compensating the dishonest.
Convenience is the key to on-going viability of launderette operations.
Chairman’s comments: Do we get the ‘recognition’ we really deserve?
Feed-back for LCW on U.S. ‘Clean’ 07 Show.
NALI looks to industry support for future UK shows.
Go ‘on record’ to safeguard an insurance pay-out!
Threat to UK Safety Law.
Safety in Launderettes and On-Premise Laundries.
Getting to grips with ill-feeling between colleagues.
Yet still more Government by ‘Stealth’!

2nd Quarter 2007

NALI anxiety over launderette-style facilities
that could lead to holiday tragedies.
Profits can gush forth when money is poured into
a hole in the ground!
Your Tax – Their Incentive!
Get yourself a clean Bill of Health!
Chairman’s comments: Summertime Blues – and Boreholes.
A Brighter Outlook.
Smoke-free Law now a matter of fact.
Solvent Emissions Directive update.
NALI ‘Associate Membership’ offer to EHOs.
Insurance matters: “Once Burnt, Twice Shy”.
Dismissal of an employee for ‘Misconduct’ can put you on the wrong side of the law if you get it wrong!

3rd Quarter 2007

Insurance Pay-Out Risk for Operators without a safe working certificate
Corgi and utility Renewals - and Absolute rubbish
Launderette Services to the rescue of flood-battered homeowners
Chairman's comments: Analysing a Money Trap
@Associated Liver@ honour long service employees.
Insurance matters: A Silver Lining?
Clean 07, Las Vegas
Boost your bottom line: 10 ways to make more money in your coin laundry
A look ahead: The future of the self-service laundry industry
Stress Management
UK beats off EU safety law challenge

4th Quarter 2007

Major Admin. changes introduced by NALI for 2008
Essential to believe that support of the industry is a worthwhile cause
NALI Council for 2007 - 2008
Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative
Essential to believe that support of the industry
Chairman's comments: Tales of woe and construction.
Helpline proved its worth
Housing Benefit changes
Insurance matters: Full Service laundry business
A Spur to Improving Safer Working Standards
National Minimum Wage
Employment laws hit recruiting