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Use your favourite search for ‘second interviews’ to find loads of tips etc. Remember, the interviewers already know that you are able to do the job. The second interview is all about ensuring you are the best choice and that you will work well with the team. It is likely much more about soft issues than hard technical ones although you may get some questions about the tech stuff. If you have tech skills then they obviously are relevant; if not they have still invited you so maybe they have those elsewhere and are looking for you to provide something different. You must have thought about what you would do practically in your first 100 days if you get the job? That should get you some idea of the challenges etc. Having an understanding of the market the company operates in rather than other data usually works well. Helps to identify the pressures that might be working against OSH improvement. hth p48

Everyone so far has mentioned tangible items which are, of course, key to the role. Anyone in that sort of engineering environment will tell you the same. However, in my opinion the biggest challenge you will face is getting employees and management alike on side. Everyone has to believe that H&S is the right thing, not just believe but be willing to play their part and abide by the rules put in place. Unless it is a forward thinking organisation with a really good culture already, you are likely to come up against the "I've been doing this 40 years and I've never had an accident" brigade and, to me, that is your key challenge. So, I would add "culture" as one of your key challenges when you go to interview because, at the end of the day, it is the people that have the accidents and the people who have the means to avoid them. An engaged workforce is your biggest ally.

You might think you know what the workplace issue are, or you may think you can anticipate what they will be, but in my view you will be making a big mistake if you take that approach into the interview. I think this interview is all about how you personally would go about doing your job. If you were doing the job you would find out very quickly what the issues were and I believe any reasonable employer would realise that. So concentrate on how you are going to do your job. How will you try to influence bahaviours? How will you go about communicating will people from different layers of the organisation? What rodblocks do you think you might encounter and how would you overcome them?

I tend to take the scattergun approach to culture - approach it from all sides all at once. However, what has worked most favourably is that employees see improvements to their working environment, they see changes coming about from things they have mentioned. Eventually you get a snowball effect where because things have changed at the employees request, they want those things to stay in place so if anyone is found tampering or changing, they will have to answer to their colleagues. Once you start the ball rolling and keep on top of the issues and implement improvements, it gradually gathers momentum until it becomes a force in it's own right. Yes, I have seen vast improvements. We have never been an organisation that had a lot of accidents, but since I took the reigns in 1995 our accidents have reduced by 90% and we have gone from having a lost time accident once a year/18 months to having one lost time accident in 2004 and another one in 2008 (which was the operator using the wrong tool although the right one was available) and nothing since then. We are only one stupid mistake away from an accident, it's an engineering firm making goods that weigh up to about 4.5 tonnes, but so far it is the culture that has prevented this from happening.

Second stage interview? My God, what next? You can either do the job or you cannot. If the bods who conducted the 1st stage interview cannot make their minds' up or are unsure about something it does not bode well. I have interviewed very many in my day and never had any propensity to progress to a 2nd stage interview. Fortunately, I have never hired a "duffer" as yet although I've been in the landing area of a few catapultees. My advise is to be yourself and don't be influenced by what other may advise or suggest if you are uncomfortable with it. Jon

Hi Guys, I am very pleased with response the valuable advise and thoughts provided so far, well appreciated. Please keep the thoughts coming. In regards to the question raised about the "I've been doing this 40 years and I've never had an accident", I would agree with Hilary as I have achieved the same with my existing company. Employees behaviour tend to change over time if they notice changes that they have asked for. furthermore, I would always involve them in the decision making and get their buy in for any changes/improvements. Thanks

Yeah, but its rarely the truth.

Hey you can take help from internet by reading previous year question answer.You can browse HSE website.By this you can get lots of information.

Great news Isa. May the role be all that you hope it to be. Stu