Visiting Officer - London, United Kingdom - Health and Safety Executive

Health and Safety Executive
Health and Safety Executive
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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Salary:

- £26,372 - £29,749
  • Posts in London receive an additional £4,378 London Weighting Allowance
    Job grade:


  • Executive Officer

  • Band 5
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • HSE
  • Human Resources Division (HR)
  • Construction Division, Field Operations Division.
Energy Division and Chemical Explosives and Microbiological Hazards Division
Type of role:


  • Operational Delivery
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 4Contents
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About the job


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  • LondonAbout the job

Job summary:

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the independent regulator for work-related health and safety. Our purpose is to protect people and the environment - we save lives.

  • HSE
is highly regarded both nationally and internationally. The benefits that our work brings to business, workers and the UK economy are clear. Improved health and safety risk management protects workers and translates into reduced sickness absence, lower healthcare and welfare costs, and better productivity.

  • Our collective goal is to help make Great Britain one of the best, safest and healthiest places to live and work in, through influencing health and safety attitudes and behaviours, which helps to reduce death, injury and ill health

Job description:

The work of our Visiting Officers/Regulatory Contact Officer is focused on HSE's operational priorities. They work alone, and alongside inspectors and specialists supporting their work.

They assist with inspector-led workplace inspections; investigations of work-related incidents affecting workers and the public, health and safety related enforcement activity; and campaigns and promotional activities designed to improve the management of health and safety in the workplace.

Visiting Officers are typically managed by Operational Team Leaders and work as part of a team.


Construction Division
Construction Division (CD) regulates health and safety in the building industry, construction engineering and in licensed asbestos removal work.

CD's visiting officers work in CD's 21 construction teams across Great Britain delivering interventions in construction workplaces and with industry stakeholders, and work alongside inspectors and construction engineering specialists supporting their inspection, investigation and enforcement activities.

CD currently has a total of 1 post in London.


Field Operations Division:


Field Operations Division (FOD) regulates health & safety across a range of industries, including general manufacturing, agriculture, fairgrounds, crown, fire, police, and health services across the whole of Great Britain (this list is not exhaustive).

As one national delivery division, FOD is organised into 3 teams who cover every area of GB, supported by national Specialist & Occupational Health Teams.

FOD's visiting officers work alongside all of these teams, delivering interventions in workplaces and with industry stakeholders to support investigation and enforcement activities.

Visiting officers are also expected to carry out their own investigations and interventions with direction and support of their principal inspector.

Field Operations Division currently have 3 posts in London.


All roles require regular travelling and occasional stays away from home.

Responsibilities:


  • Making enquiries into reported incidents to inform the operational team leader's investigation decision
  • Taking voluntary witness statements and victim personal statements to support enforcement action by inspectors and specialists
  • Securing and processing evidence and contributing to its proper management
  • Visiting workplaces to make judgements about matters of concern and identify where an inspector intervention may be justified, consulting with the operational team leader or an inspector as necessary
  • Attending court hearings and inquests to take notes and provide feedback or to give evidence on matters relating to VO/RCO involvement in the case
  • Interacting with a wide group of duty holders, employees, trade union representatives, Local Authority officers, members of the public and other interested parties including the Police and solicitors in the course of reactive support work
  • Develop awareness and knowledge of HSE's work and organisational structure
  • Acquire an understanding and knowledge of relevant operational and legal procedures and to become familiar with a range of work activities, industrial processes and the associated hazards and precautions

Person specification:


Essential Skills and Criteria:


  • Work as part of a team with colleagues to deliver the key responsibilities of the post in a flexible and responsive manner responding positively to changes of priority as work demands dictate
  • Good communication and influencing skills
  • Take responsibility for making effective
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