Health And Safety Jobs

[Neocubes]

Im currently in college studying manufacturing engineering and am getting to the point where I need to choose a path to go down. I have decided that I would like to come some sort of health and safety inspector/surveyor. I was just wondering if anyone has any experience in the area and could give me some background on what I may be doing, whether work is easy to find and so on.

Any information is appreciated

[bednobs]

hi, my husband is a H+s he says: if you want to do this, they like people to have a safety qualification; you may want to do a NEBOSH certificate. what you are studying will help, but you need the certificate as a minimum usually. the other obvious thing is to join IOSH as an associate member, you'll get access to their reference library and forum, where people post jobs. that's how he got hos forst job. he is in construction H+S and works on major civil engineering projects

[Neocubes]

Thanks for the information. Could I ask what qualifications your husband had to get his first job and what did he study at university?

[bednobs]

he studied history at uni!
then he went on (some years later) and started a post graduate diploma in H+s distance learning from the university of portsmouth
when he had that he got his first civils job via the forum i spoke about.
He has gone on to study LD from U of P and will be finishing his masters degree in H,S and environment next week (hopefully xx). All that time he has been working in civil construction, a variety of different employers, many big projects including roads, runways, olympics and so on

[Neocubes]

Best of luck to your husband for next week, thanks for the great information, helped a lot.

[bednobs]

thanks, but i need the luck i reckon - already lots of shouting and swearing about the blasted dissertation. There are plenty of companies who do the NEBOSH certificate in a two week block (for a price of course) as far as i can tell it's pretty much common sense anyway.
Why don't you contact an agency that specialise in h and s jobs eg "principal people" or "the health and safety partnership" to get a feel as to what kind of jobs are out there, and what quals are needed?

[Buenchico]

Start here:
https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk/advice/planning/jobprofiles/Pages/healthandsafetyadviser.aspx