Posted By Lukasz
It all depends :)
In my opinion at the end of the plan he should be CMIOSH after that amount of time within your company he should be able to identify himself what qualification he will require.

Core should be supported on these qualifications:

Nebosh Construction - as an entry level, I know that somebody will say that Nebosh General is also important but in mu opinion the difference between these courses is in use of words workplace and construction site.

Professional Diploma Safety, Health and
Environmental Management (SHEM) - to become GRAD IOSH

Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Sector (PTLLS 7303)
or any other qualification which would provide basics with regards to training (e.g. CIEH Trainer)
+ particular qualification which would allow to train in specific subject (e.g. Manual Handling etc.) different courses has different requirements for example requirements to become First Aid Trainer you will need to have First Aid at Work for minimum 3 years.

Other course probably to become competent in areas to inspect slings etc. but it would be also his job to identify what he training he require as every company is different.

and I think very useful would to be to provide mentor (CMIOSH) not to help him learn from books but to learn from his own experience... probably it is expensive solution but in my opinion important, it is easier to have mentor in bigger companies if you starting on junior position.

It depends as well what is your budget for training due to fact that Diploma might cost around £5,000

Posted By Philip McAleenan
Jane, it may be useful to commence your recruitment from the basis of obtaining an engineer for the post and progressing them through to the Institution of Civil Engineers register.

ICE maintains a register of specialists in construction health safety and welfare (open to ICE and others from associated bodies). This leaflet will give you details of the route to registration, including the types of topics to be studied, http://www.ice.org.uk/downloads/ICE3009(1)_ConstructionHealthSafetyWelfareRegister.pdf . Pages 6 and 7 gives you details of the attributes, and this will help you with developing a training plan.

Thomas Telford Training is the training arm of ICE and they run courses on Health and Safety, details of which can be obtained from http://www.tttrain.co.uk/courses/index.asp . Other courses on subjects such as auditing etc. may be obtained via other relevant bodies such as IRCA. They all add to the CPD requirements for the register.

In this way you will have an OSH specialist who is qualified, experienced and very familiar with the whole life of projects from concept to design through to use and, eventually demolition.

Regards, Philip

Posted By Bob Youel
Just a thought:

Whilst your person is learning you still need to have a competent person in place to buddy him / her

Posted By Ian Mitchell
Oh yes, whilst I think on - what about me? ;)