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#1 Posted : 27 July 2007 10:01:00(UTC)
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Posted By Tina Hansen
How do you determine how many EHS Coordinators are required on a site?
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#2 Posted : 27 July 2007 13:50:00(UTC)
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Posted By anon1234
Depends on far to many factors to give a straight answer. Such as,

Are you talking about professional health and safety advisers or about persons with assigned co-ordinating roles in the business?

What sort of buisness is it?
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#3 Posted : 30 July 2007 10:55:00(UTC)
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Posted By Tina Hansen
Our former EHS Coordinator / Supervisor / person assigned to other tasks left and now we need to find someone else. The management has asked me what percent of a job this would require? There are about 40 people and it involves warehousing and production (metal industry).

Someone mentioned at one point that IOSH has some type of guidelines for this. (i.e. 1 EHS Coordinator per 100 employees)? Has anyone heard of something like this?
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#4 Posted : 30 July 2007 11:05:00(UTC)
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Posted By Ian G Hutchings
Tina

There is no definitive number. It is a judgement based on risk and operation. For the type of operation you mention you will need competent advice and support. This can be managed with one individual or a number as part of another role.


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#5 Posted : 30 July 2007 11:16:00(UTC)
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Posted By Tabs
The biggest variable will be what standard are you at and where do you want to be?

If all systems are in place, running well and delivering a high standard of management (not figures, management) then it *may* be less than one day per week - with total flexibility to react in cases of accidents or hiccups.

If however you have no proactive management systems, it *might* be a full time job for a set period, or half-time job for set period x 2.

Depending on budgets, you might like to ask someone to provide an audit, and take a more informed decision from there.
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#6 Posted : 30 July 2007 15:00:00(UTC)
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Posted By Merv Newman
On a small site I have in the past recommended that the site manager or the HR person (if there is one) takes on the role, with appropriate training. possibly assisted full or part time by a foreman level "technician"

Controversially perhaps, I am also of the opinion that safety management "systems" are not of much help to a small site. Neither, I regret to say, are H&S consultants.

They generally end up as paper exercises, after which everyone shrugs, files it in the round drawer, and carries on as normal.

Behavioural Based Safety and/or proactive safety auditing has proved to be a reasonable help on 5 or 6 small (30 to 50 employee) sites.

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