Posted By MP Grayson Are referring to a Medical Doctor? If so I would have personally thought that your job prospects would not be good with serious H/S qualifications such as those. I base this on the fact that MDs are on a good whack maybe 120K +. As a H/S adviser you will not even get a sniff of that wage. So imagine the following scenario; I’m your boss and we have a small village surgery with 5 staff members and I pay you £110K per year. I would not want you managing H/S and writing risk assessments, digging through MSDS to write COSHH assessments etc. When I can pay another staff member with an NGC or Diploma to do that for £25K. Your skills are in medicine and that’s where I would want you to focus and concentrate. If I wanted you to have a background knowledge of H/S, COSHH etc I would sent you on a Managing Safety course, loosing you for just one week and continue to manage my surgery budget as efficiently as I could. Only my opinion. Crack on.

Posted By MP Grayson I suppose then its down to you. I know how you feel about a career change. I took a 56% pay cut over night at first when I got into the H/S job thingy. But it was what I wanted so no problems there. If its what you are really after (and I can appreciate your position, I used to fix aeroplanes, then decided I didn't want to go back into the Hangar). Then I think that with a medical background and by giving H/S 100%, you would be an asset. You may however find that you are limited to more specialist fields of say sport, medical, bio, chemical analysis etc. (as you know more than the rest of us how the body works). My first reply was assuming that you would still primarily be a Doctor and was looking for "bolt on" qualifications. No offence was intended. But what do I know I'm just a thicko. Anyways, best of luck and crack on. Oh, but the way. I have this lump..............

Posted By William I would say that you should contact one of the offshore companies as they often have the medic doubling up as the safety officer. I personally think that if you contacted any company in the offshore industry they would bite your hand off, many people on these forums can't get work in a safety role offshore because companies want them to do safety as well as medical duties, and all you would be doing as a medic is very basic treatment cases, mostly be dishing out painkillers for toothache, and very rarely you will get something serious, but very, very rarely. Offshore companies are also becoming bigger on occupational health and the difference between them and other employers is money, they can pay you a very good wage and are very supportive of their safety and occupational health departments. I would say you are in an very envious position.

Posted By David Bannister Femig, have you thought about occupational medicine? Your medical knowledge and skills could be specifically applied to the diseases, ailments and health of the working population. The Faculty of Occupational Medicine (www.facoccmed.ac.uk/) may be a place to make further enquiries. As an aside, I know of two medical doctors (one a heart specialist) who were working as H&S managers in multinational companies in India.

Posted By femig my question then will be is there a difference between getting a masters and joining the faculty of occupational medicine. I want to start the Msc Program in august.