Hi Jim
Welcome to the IOSH Forums!
Not clear from your posting whether you were an HSE Inspector and are now doing something in the Construction sector, or whether that was the sector you worked in when you were in HSE.
But, I guess it might help if you gave readers a bit more information about your experience and spelt out the acronym which after thinking about it I assumed probably means Licensed Asbestos Removal.
Now I know that HSE policy has changed but when I joined HSE you were not allowed anywhere near the sector you had previously worked in until all your preconceptions about acceptable custom and practice had been put to bed. Then to keep you fresh they moved you from sector to sector, typically every four or five years.
By the time I got moved into Construction and Fairgrounds for a 4 year stint (24 fatals and much more), I had already done 7 years looking at other things. We didn't spend much time on asbestos removal for the simple reason that there were too many accidents happening AND HSE was very strict about keeping the numbers of Inspectors needing to get fully togged up down to the bare minimum.
However, I did do one year in Metal Manufacture, Minerals (which included Asbestos) and Timber but I only got fully togged up once to look at the project to sort out a botched asbestos removal job under a public building. Served a couple of Crown prohibition notices on the Client (long before CDM) - but I was also the Nominated Noise Inspector for the Area which was a grand title but in practice meant that I got a noise meter which cost 10 times as much as those all the other Inspectors got and I was supposed to make good use of it - and did.
To be honest I don't recognise doing the investigations as being particular enjoyable - some very intersesting, some very challenging but it was not enjoyable sitting at the bedside of a man who had just blown half his arm off when a firework went off in an uncontrolled manner at a major display and my colleague was interviewing him under caution.
Perhaps slightly more enjoyable managing to agree with a labourer that if he hadn't been wearing a hard hat - before the Construction (Head Protection) Regs 1989 - he would probably be dead, but then the large part of the piling rig should not have fallen nearly 30m and my main priority in interviewing him was to collect evidence for the prosecution.
Plenty of HSE Inspectors have ended up working for Contractors, including Contractors they may have prosecuted. The better end of the market understand that sometimes they get things wrong and an Inspector may conclude that prosecution is merited. In my experience, those being prosecuted generally didn't hold it against me whether they were construction contractors or most of anyone else. Once in while they would plead Not Guilty and we would go to trial.
One former Inspector who visits these Forums makes much of his subsequent income precisely because of his detailed understanding of asbestos work.
I chose a different course and ended up with a major Consultant - in simplistic terms a major design practice. Consultants were not used to often dealing with HSE and despite over 25 years of CDM it's still quite a rarity.
If you want to go into construction H&S consultancy possibly you could identify who on these Forums has lots of experience in the sector and PM them to pick their brains.
Good luck, Peter