Unacceptable Behaviour Customer Policy for Businesses

Properly supporting your employees is an important part of creating a confident and resilient team. This guide brings together practical resources that line managers can use when employees need support with wellbeing, difficult customer interactions, reasonable adjustments or challenging life circumstances. This guide is especially useful for organisations where customer-facing teams regularly deal with demanding, emotional or distressing conversations, and where managers want to confidently support teams with more care and consistency.

When customers don't fully understand what their pet insurance covers, the problems often show up later. A claim is made, something unexpected is not included, or a cost catches them by surprise. That can lead to confusion, complaints and poor outcomes for the customer, as well as conduct and compliance risk for the firm.

This free poster is designed to help pet insurance teams spot the signs that a customer may be unclear on what they are buying. It's an easy resource to use in team huddles, onboarding, refresher training or day-to-day frontline support.

A workplace suicide policy should help people know what to look out for, what to do in a crisis, and how to create a safer culture for both employees and customers. This policy template gives you a practical starting point for suicide prevention, early intervention and postvention support in the workplace. It's provided in Word format so it can be tailored to your organisation, your roles and your internal support routes. The policy covers prevention, crisis response, safer language, support after a suicide, signposting and the wider steps an organisation can take to reduce risk and respond well.

It's never easy when a customer tells you someone has died. This guide helps businesses respond with more care and more clarity, so staff can support bereaved customers through the practical side of things without sounding cold, awkward or rushed. It covers what to say when bereavement or terminal illness is disclosed, how to record information properly, how to make processes easier for grieving customers and where to signpost if extra support may help. It's a practical guide for teams who want to handle these conversations better and build a more thoughtful bereavement process around them.

When someone is acting under a Power of Attorney, teams need to know what they can do, what they cannot do, and how to handle the situation properly. This guide helps businesses respond with more confidence when a customer’s affairs are being managed by someone else. It covers the basics of understanding Power of Attorney, checking that arrangements are valid, responding to requests, and knowing what to do if something does not feel right.

This useful guide helps businesses look more carefully at how they communicate with customers, where understanding can break down, and what teams can do to make decisions easier, clearer and more accessible. It covers both practicalities and compliance considerations, with guidance on Consumer Duty requirements, reviewing communications, checking understanding in real conversations, using feedback and testing, and gathering evidence that your approach is working.

Supporting bereaved customers well takes more than one guide or one script. This toolkit brings together practical resources that help businesses handle bereavement and end of life contact with more care, more consistency and less avoidable stress for the customer. The toolkit includes training resources, policy support, customer personas and guidance on related areas such as power of attorney, helping teams understand different customer needs, respond better in real conversations and put clearer processes in place across the business.

Fire evacuation plans only work if they take real people into account. This guide helps housing providers, landlords and building managers think more carefully about residents who may not understand a standard evacuation plan or may not be able to follow it without extra support. It covers practical steps such as checking understanding, having better conversations with residents, identifying fire risks, preparing Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans and making information more accessible. It is a useful guide for anyone responsible for resident safety in managed or tenanted buildings. PLEASE NOTE: this document is for guidance only and does not substitute the key requirement and duty placed on employers and businesses which is to develop a premises emergency evacuation plan covering all likely scenarios of occupation.