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Afternoon All,
Just came across a job add for a Health & Safety Business Partner - not much detail to go with, so thought I'd ask on here exactly what is a H&S Business Partner? What does one do? and where in the hieracrchy of H&S roles would such a job sit?
Anyone out there have any ideas?
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Quite happy to be corrected but from my experienec Business Partners seems to be a term referring to an outside resource working within an organisation but without the benefits of direct employment by the organisation
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Quite happy to be corrected but from my experienec Business Partners seems to be a term referring to an outside resource working within an organisation but without the benefits of direct employment by the organisation
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Hi Pseudonym If it's akin to our HR Business Partner is someone dedicated to a line of the business. If we had HSE Business Partners they could be at various levels. Is there a job description?
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I am a SHE Business Partner, I work for a Group with a number of subsidiary companies (hence business partnering across the companies). To be honest I do the role of an advisor and have no line management responsibility.
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I am sometimes referred to as a Health and Safety Business Partner; this a term I hate, I much prefer Health and Safety Advisor. I work at a university which is divided up into faculties (Life Sciences, Engineering, Business and Law etc.) plus Central Support Services. H&S belongs to Central Services but the advisers are embedded in various faculties, where they are referred to a business partners. I take part in faculty activities, committees and board meeting and regularly update the Dean etc but I report to the H&S manager in Central Support Services.
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I employ 6 SH&E Business Parnters (as the Group Head), it's a term that's better recognised in the HR field BUT has been adopted in the SH&E forum.
For me it better represents the modern world (term used loosely), the transition from the clipboard H&S practitioner, simply quoting legislation and 'telling' rather than coaching and mentoring. There's always a time to identify and use the perscriptive approach but I find this few and far between nowadays.
.....hence a partner rather than, advisor or officer (I dislike the term officer). Manager is widely used but rarely do these managers 'manage' in my experience
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