Occupational Hygiene Specialist Inspector

Occupational Hygiene Specialist Inspector
Locations: Aberdeen, Ashford (Kent), Basingstoke, Bedford, Birmingham, Bootle, Bristol, Buxton, Cardiff, Carlisle, Carmarthen, Chelmsford, Crewe, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxted, Plymouth, Sheffield, or York
About Us
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is Britain’s national regulator for workplace health and safety. We’re dedicated to protecting people and places, ensuring everyone can lead safer and healthier lives at work.
We are now looking for an Occupational Hygiene Specialist Inspector to join our teams at locations across the country on a full-time, permanent basis.
The Benefits
- Salary of £47,996 - £52,963 per annum
- 25 days’ annual holiday increasing to 30 days after 5 years' service, plus bank holidays and 1 day Civil Service privilege leave
- Civil Service Pension Scheme
- Flexible working options
- Family friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career
- Carer friendly policies to help create a supportive working culture
- Parental leave benefits
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- Learning and development tailored to your role
This is an outstanding opportunity for an occupational health professional with membership of the British Occupational Hygiene Society, within the Faculty of Occupational Hygiene, to join our teams across the UK.
 You’ll have the chance to work across a wide range of industries encompassing thousands of workers in a role where you can apply your knowledge and experience to protecting peoples’ health and safety at work.
Not only this, but you will be advancing your career and expanding your portfolio of expertise utilising a specialist training programme and wider learning opportunities.
The Role
As an Occupational Hygiene Specialist Inspector, you will provide frontline regulatory inspection work across the agriculture, manufacturing, engineering, waste and recycling, education, health, utilities and transport, government and domestic gas sectors.
Joining a specialist regulatory team, you will inspect workplaces, identifying health risks and evaluating and eliminating or controlling them by providing in-depth technical expertise.
Intervening in businesses and enforcing the law, you will support Regulatory Inspectors and provide independent expert witness input to court, securing justice for sufferers of ill health in the workplace.
Additionally, you will:
- Seek to raise standards of control and clarify legal requirements
- Collaborate on projects and initiatives to review and inform health and safety policy
- Work with colleagues to influence strategic stakeholders and campaigns
About You
To be considered for this role, you will need:
- To be a current professional member of the British Occupational Hygiene Society, Faculty of Occupational Hygiene, at a minimum grade of Licentiate or Specialist Licentiate Grade
- A science-based Honours degree (or an equivalent qualification which includes the BOHS Certificate of Operational Competence in Occupational Hygiene or the International Certificate of Operational Competence in Occupational Hygiene)
- A full, valid driving licence
The closing date for this role is 19th February 2024.
Other organisations may call this role Occupational Health and Safety Inspector, Occupational Health Inspector, Workplace Inspector, Health & Safety Inspector, H&S Inspector, Hygiene Risk Inspector, Hygiene Compliance Inspector, or Risk Management Inspector.
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