Posted By Martin Evans Hello All, I have Tech-Iosh status and will attain Grad-Iosh in a few months after I submit my Nebosh Dip 6 assignment next month. My company owner wants me to start doing external safety consultancy work. I’m looking for safety consultancies (ideally Yorkshire based, but not essential) to help with this. Possibly along the lines of offering some advice, guidance and/or subcontracting some work to us. We are just about to finalise arrangements for Professional Indemnity insurance for this venture. I’m presently SHEQ Advisor for a specialised scaffold company, mainly working for the electrical transmission industry, providing road and rail protection scaffold structures to enable refurbishment works of the high voltage conductors. Prior to this, I spent 15 years on a top tier COMAH site and gained specific experience in breathing apparatus and heavy lifting (mobile cranes etc) amongst other things. A copy of my CV is available to anybody who can help, and can email me directly at martin.evans@dsl.pipex.com Any help with this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Martin

Posted By Martin Evans Hi Ian, Thanks for taking the time to post a reply. It is indeed an interesting move, the company owner has interests in a variety of different companies, including several construction developments amongst others. He wishes to extend his portfolio in to the safety arena. Internal V’s External time – The systems etc that I’ve been tasked to create and implement e.g. Health and Safety Management System, to gain ISO 9001 accreditation, jump through the hoops to gain preferred supplier status for national companies and the corresponding HR systems are completed. I did fetch in external help for the QA. Link-up Achilles qualification to work on railway infrastructure is almost completed. We were recently externally audited on behalf of our insurance provider, and scored 96%, only a couple of minor observation found, to me this confirmed the robustness of our SMS. Now that these hurdles have been overcome, the demands on my time are lessening. I also used to do work for what was our local division one day a week as well as attending college for the Dip (yes it was a bit hectic). My priority has now been redirected to external consultancy work, with mutual agreement that if I can no longer service my internal responsibilities, I can fetch in a trainee safety advisor. The MD’s philosophy is “nothing ventured, nothing gained” with this venture “go try, if things don’t work out, we’ll sit down and review”. My own aims were to move over into safety consulting at some point, so the venture is beneficial to all parties. Thanks for taking time to read the this post. Martin.