Hello again Anet.  Towards the bottom right of the posts you should see a button labelled "Post reply" and clicking on this should bring you to a message window where you can type your reply.

I would share your dismay at being asked to produce an HSE improvement plan at a job interview at a company you haven't been working in.

As you say, you would need to know what they already have in place, and what their structure and vision are.  And other things as well, such as what their activities are, where in the world they operate, what their customers expect, what their culture is, and what if anything they have signed up to.  Some of this, you might be able to find out from their website or by asking them.

I can see four options:

1. You could talk in general terms with some relevant examples about how you would go about developing an HSE improvement plan including what inputs you would need and showing the templates you would use, perhaps populated with a few examples based on what you do know about their industry and organisation.  So you might say you would do a PESTLE analysis, a SWOT analysis, a RACI matrix and so on (these are all popular consultant speak) and show what these would look like.

2. You could find out as much as you can, develop a draft plan based on that and tell them it is incomplete because you would need to complete certain information-gathering activities first (and state what these are and what information you would get from them).

3. You could ask them what it is they actually want.

4. You could tell them that if they want some free consultancy, they had better get someone else to do it.

I agree with the above!