Posted By Andrew Palmer
Hi
I have been asked to take on the role of H&S coordination (inc competent person) for a Housing Association. We have 600 staff, across about 60 sites, including care work and gardening teams. I am looking for some benchmarking information and would welcome anyone who can give me the 3 simple pieces of info:
Type of Business:
Number of Staff:
Approx no of sites:
Number of H&S staff:
Any other information will be appreciated.
Regards
Andrew

Posted By Jane Ling
Hi Andrew,

I work for a housing association very similar to yourself. We also provide mainstream housing, some small residential care units and some hostels.

Approx 600 staff
Approx 50 sites
One busy health and safety adviser

Hope this helps

Jane

Posted By Stevie
Hi Andrew,
I work for a HA with mainly General Needs but with some Sheltered and Residential Care stuff, we have:

430 staff
about 30 sites

1 very busy H&S officer!

Steve

Posted By Bill Parkinson
Type of Business : Healthcare

No of Staff : 5600 + 600 permanent contractors + 600 volunteers (non paid)

No of Sites: 3

No of H&S Staff : 1 + part time admin support

Posted By J Knight
Hi Folks,

Business Healthcare and Charity retailing, 3,000 employees, about 450 sites of which about 420 are small to very small. Currently 1 HS&E Manager and 1 H&S Adviser. Hoping to grow to 3.5 f.t advisers; this is based on an analysis of training need in Healthcare and on the fact that I have to deliver on the Environment, which currently has barely started, and the fact that our workplaces are scattered over the whole of the UK mainland,

John

Posted By Pete48
Andrew
Simple ratios are not the best way to determine H&S resource requirements. What is more important in establishing what is needed is:
-the strategy for H&S in the organisation and how well this is integrated into board or exec level thinking
-where the organisation is in terms of both simple things like legal compliance, staff knowledge as well as the softer things like culture etc.
-the geographic spread as well as number of locations
-the width or variety of business activity.
-the infrastructure available (IT systems, intranets, video conferencing, home working et al)
I have worked as a lone H&S person "covering" hundreds of sites with thousands of employees and been bored because all I had to do was keep up to date with regs, do analysis, a bit of training and lead on auditing.
Equally I have worked with a team of one skilled and competent H&S person at each of 40 manufacturing locations, a central admin staff of 2 and never stopped for 3 years!
Define what the needs are and then staff from there.
(just realised that this may be patronising you, not intended! apologies if I have)

Posted By Glyn Atkinson
Approx 1000 employees including management structure and office workers -

2 sites including three satellite production areas within two mile radius of busy dual carriageway road system at peak hours.

Customer Care unit with engineers /vehicles working nationally and internationally in some cases.

High level of under 25 years workers in a fast manufacturing bonus scheme.

Currently one H&S manager - own car in use, awaiting with eagerness for 5th March when a new assistant starts to lighten the workload, or delivery of a time machine to help be in two (or more ) places at once.

Used to be less production areas and four H&S persons in total until redundancy problems in 2005.

Happy days !

Posted By kanta
We employ 100 staff on three sites.
Intotal, we have 9 Fire Wardens,who are also Risk Assessors.
We have five Manual Handling Assessors
and two full time First Aiders.
We also have a part time administrator who does our paperwork.

Hope this helps.