Posted By Andrew Barkwill Currently employed in the Royal Navy until April / May 2006 when I will have completed my full 22 years service. During this time have had various roles, including being the whole ships co-ordinator for incident management. Required to continually assess, investigate and plan for worst case scenarios. To provide training for incident management, fire fighting, damage control, sea survival, biological / chemical defence and sea survival. Also required to not only act as 'Officer of the Day' (1st point of contact for all incidents) but to train and assess other 'Officers of the Day' in there duties. Head of the seamanship department responsible for carrying out continuous risk assessments and conducting hazardous evolutions in stressful conditions (simulated war) ranging from recovering man overboard, transfer of personnel ship to ship, replenishment at sea of fuel, water and ammunitions. Whole ship sea survival equipment supervisor and whole ship lifting equipment co-ordinator responsible for maintenance and risk assessments of lifting operations. Marpol co-ordinator (waste disposal) and leading as the department’s COSHH and H&S representative. To build upon the knowledge and experiences gained within the Royal Navy I have recently completed the NEBOSH General Certificate and currently studying the NEBOSH diploma. Seeking a health & safety position within Hampshire / South of England. Will forward my CV onto any interested parties. Andrew Barkwill

Posted By Robin Young You might be fed up with the sea but if you are not then you should consider the offshore oil exploration industry. Seismic exploration is in boom time just now. Most companies have steered away from full time HSE Advisors as the industry is quite mature in HSE terms and line management is generally supported by one or two office personnel but CGG(.com) indicated a return to HSE advisors. There is also more frontier work that tends to mean bringing third world companies up to modern standard. Try iagc.org and go to members page, select Data Acquisition Companies and then visit their web sites for contact name/e-mail and an idea of what they do. You would probably want to offer yourself as willing to start as Observer (working as one of data collection personnel that monitor and repair equipment often using small boats) with a view to HSE role to gain the industry experience. Competent, reliable ex-navy people are well regarded in the industry but often your CV needs to land on the right desk at the right moment. The major companies are www.pgs.com, www.veritasdgc.com, www.westerngeco.com and www.fugro.nl but there are plenty of others. Good luck