Posted By mintw I got an interview in a big dairy products manufacturing company. I need to do a short presentation on a topic of my choice. I have a few topics in my mind. But i welcome any suggestion topics which might be interested in this industry?

Posted By CFT Well, I suppose you really should do something that would be of interest to the panel and relates to their particular industry. How about creating your own short list of topics that you know inside out, backward forwards in your sleep etc, then see which on your own list might meet the criteria for said interview. There is an enormous dairy near me that I have watched with interest whilst being constructed, lots of tut tuts from this observer, but that was/is during construction. I can see much after completion WAH issues, regular servicing of the automated lines so locking off procedures will be helpful, contamination, WAH inside the building, vehicle pedestrian segregation, welfare facilities, control of contractors or own maintenance team, goods in and out control, processing other than fully mechanised, dealing with the white stuff when it spills (as it will) slips trips etc, cleaning, cross contamination and separation of materials for consumption and other, noise controls, PPE (if they must) high level works whilst production is running, (how do you do it? Sodium low bays etc) The above is a brief indication of areas you will ultimately have responsibility for, hopefully there is something or a few together that you can run with said presentation. Above all else 'Ernie' Good Luck! (PS: Ernie won't mean anything to under 40's!!) Charley

Posted By Pete48 A topic of your choice?? Choices might be: -hard technical stuff as outlined by Ian and Charley -softer people type issues like safety cultures, -management issues like safety governance and how it adds to company profitability. -or even "my best success" in H&S management Get my drift? Depends on what you think it is about your CV that has attracted them to you. Think carefully before just focusing on technical matters unless the brief is that specific. H&S is about far more than that as I am sure you know. Hope this helps to jog you before you decide.

Posted By mintw Thank you for all of your valuable opinions. I'm thinking to do a case study presentation which can put all types of risk assessments together. My focus points are how the risk assessments (generic RA, COSHH, Manual handling, noise, etc) can identify the root causes of a safety issue and how this issue can be solved via risk assessments.

Posted By Robert Paterson Hi Mintw It sounds very similar to an interview I attended in Scotland. It is a group interview where you will be presenting to all the group and not just the interviewees. Don't know if you knew that already but I thought I would point it out anyway. I think it might be an idea to speak about a topic you have knowledge of as I don't think it needs to be about health and safety but obvious tie it into health and safety management. Good luck with the interview. Regards Robert

Posted By James Fearns . Hi mintw . Also you should be mentioning that 'If you are chosen' to fill this vacancy then you arent going to come in with all guns blazing with radical Ideas and try to change things! ."I'll get to know the H&S policy/Fit into whats already here then see how I/We can move forward positively to keep production going but with the employees and this organisations H&S record in good order" .Good luck !

Posted By Malcolm Hogarth Did you get the Job? Malcolm