Posted By Richard S Pigg Gary, There is a massive shortage of Construction Safety people at the moment (probably 50% of our vacancies are of this type). It is however very difficult to move across to Construction H&S. The problem is that most roles are multi-site thus mentoring is not really possible. Construction companies are very concerned about taking on people without Construction experience as there have recently been a nmuber of cases were incidents have happened and the Safety Manager (if they have little Construction Safety exp and loads of general safety) is accused of not being a competent person and the company has been sued for vast amounts of money. HTH Richard Pigg KEY PEOPLE

Posted By Max Webber If there is a competent professional out there that is willing to make the jump they should be encouraged, because the construction companies in the main only want to pay for partially qualified personnel so they have a name on the books. This especially applies to the small to medium size contractors. Why is this when it is such a high risk industry?

Posted By Gary Bennett Thanks to all that responded to this thread. I will continue applying to construction companies and see what comes my way. Thanks & regards, Gary.