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Posted By Simon Dobby
As part of a benchmarking exercise we are trying produce some data to relate the number of health and safety advisors in an organisation to the number of employees. Is anyone willing to let us have details for their organisation of: 1) the number of health and safety advisors, 2) the number of employees in the organisation and 3) their organisation type/sector?
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Posted By Merv Newman
I usually recommend one H&S person (qualified/experienced appropriately for the risk level) for the first tranche of 500 employees then an additional person for each extra 500.
This seems to work well for single sites. Where multi-sites/lots of travel are required then the ratio should be increased. "Face time" is very important and should be about 50% of working hours. Travel time, administration, CPD or whatever come out of the other 50%
Discuss
Have a nice day (Friday)
Merv
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Posted By AlB
Really it depends on the working environment and risks involved.
I work in quarrying industry. We have 450 employees over 3 sites. We have 3 HSE personnel. One is pure "policing", one is on the documentation and management systems side, the other in-between.
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Posted By Descarte
100 employees
1 safety advisor
1 assistant
3 safety reps
chemical/lab/oil lower tier COMAH, DSEAR, on and off shore work
Covered also by corporate guidance / audits etc.
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Posted By Nigel Hammond
1 H&S Adviser (Me!) for 1400 staff and 600 people with learning disabilities that the staff support. About 130 sites across the UK. Charity sector.
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Posted By AlB
Nigel - need a hand? I fancy a change of scenery!
That's a lot of coverage for one person. But I presume the risks related to the work are low.
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Posted By David A Jones
I have a total H&S team of 7 for approx 6500 employees (including agency and temps etc) spread over >25 sites - mostly office based but also a number of significantly higher risk activites both on and off site.
Can we have some more contributions here please, as I would also find this sort of data extremely useful
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Posted By Catman
Hi All
Contracting Electrical Company with 200 employees, 150 of whom are based on different construction/industrial/commercial sites across Scotland.
I am the sole safety & personnel advisor, with help from a very switched on safety committee & management team, which seems to work well here.
Cheers
Catman
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Posted By Linda Westrupp
Local Authority with everything from construction to care/education etc.about 200 sites over a 12 x 3 mile area 12,500 employees 5 Advisors, 4 Assistants, 5 Admin. (not enough of anything to go round!!) In general managers have day to day responsibility and we advise i.e. act as internal consultants.
In response to an earlier reply: I would say Care is not low risk especially LD as there are 'challenging behaviour' issues with Statutory Duties which preclude avoiding the risk. I know the voluntary sector do work differently though.
Hope this helps the general thread, is someone going to turn this into a MSc project?
Linda
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Posted By Allan Kerrigan
I am the sole H&S Advisor for 2500 staff in 13 sites in GB. All office based and low risk, but after being in post for three months I have recommended that some key personnel, such as facilities managers and safety reps sit the 4 day IOSH managing safety exam, to help back up the system.
Hope this helps you and everyone else
allan
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Posted By Barrie M Dexter
Whisky Distillers 3 sites All COMAH 2
Upper Tier Sites
1 Company Safety, Health Environment
Leader
3 Site Health & Safety Advisers
750 employees over all sites
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Posted By J Knight
Charity providing care for people with long-term conditions and life-limiting illnesses in 17 Care Centres and five Homecare services with approx 1750 staff in total, plus 400 Charity shops with another 750 making a total of 2,500. Relatively low risk, but there is a warehouse plus 6 of our care centres are registered as independent hospitals and do carry out a range of medical functions as well as care and the mere idea of Homecare gives me kittens . There is me plus one adviser in Retail, plus one of the Care Centres has a part time adviser of its own (hello Stuart) who was in post before I arrived. I am constantly after extra resources but progress is slow and its a very big job.
My previous employer has 7,500 employees also engaged in Care at around 100 sites, more socially based than ours, and at the time I left them they had 9 safety advisers plus a head of H&S.
John
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Posted By Alex Ryding
13 sites (all within a 30 mile radius), 2200 employees 1 safety manager, 1 assistant and 20 reps (ROE's)
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Posted By Jo Scott Smith
1000 staff, 200 sites across England and Scotland- offices, advice centres and shops. 1 member of staff (hoping for another).
JO
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