Hi guys, Having spent the last fifteen years in construction, starting from the bottom, I migrated to a carrier in Health & Safety. I am very proactive and passionate about Safety Management. I know, ultimately as any other job; it pays the bills, yet I feel that strange affinity towards it. Guess I am lucky, getting paid for doing what I like doing. Lately, I have been feeling frustrated in relation to the balance between quantity and quality in terms of the deliverance of the advice and guidance the job roles entails. I am a strong believer in developing relationships with the construction site teams; I am overseeing as a part of my daily routine. To my opinion, a dialogue needs to be established and proactively kept alive in order to achieve improved safety performance that comes within the individuals. I believe in convincing, if possible the personnel, I am involved with, to take personal responsibility and due care to all matters related to safety management within the organization. If people do it because they believe it is the right thing to do, then the chances of having a last long behavioural change within the organization is far more likely, ultimately resulting in positive H&S culture. I have to admit here that I perceive the balance of the culture as a dynamic process, that requires constant nurturing and support at various levels, in order to keep it alive. So here comes the question: What do you believe is a feasible number of different jobs a Health and Safety Practitioner within a large size company needs to cover in order to keep that balance? I appreciate in advance that the quality of the individual will most definitely play a role and some safety advisors will be able to achieve further results then others, based on factors like, skills, personality, knowledge and experience in the field etc. Please post the number of jobs, you are covering as a part of your Health and Safety role in order to shed more light to everyone else, who may find the topic applicable to their own job role and subsequently allowing for all of us here to compare and define as to what is a “normal” figure.

Hi again, grhamboxall, thanks for your reply. I believe the question might have been asked in an unclear way. To simplify it up to the point: How many different Construction Sites at various locations is a manageable number of jobs that a SHE Advisor should be responsible for in order to keep the balance discussed in my original posting. At present I am overwhelmed with the jobs on my list (over twenty…) All of these come under CDM Regs. and some are budgeted in their millions.