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[thelace]

I'm an IT contractor, but I'm interested to know how you go about becoming a Health and Safety specialist.

What sort of qualifications do you need, and how long does it take to become one.

Seems to me in this day and age nothing can get done without some kind of H&S check, must be a good industry to be in.

It's a growing industry, that's for sure! However in Industry, like Brillopads post mentions, you get the tulip end of the stick if it all goes wrong and someone gets hurt.

Takes 14 weeks day release or night school or 2 weeks block to get the basic certificate. But to get where the money is, the most important thing is experience. Added to experience then comes the diploma, 2 years of reasonably hard graft, again on day release or night school.

The big money comes with the biggest industries. The big chemical or petrochems on your doorstep that can "do a Buncefield". That's my field.

SallyAnn Contracting can earn you from £20 - £60 an hour, like IT that depends on your skill set, experience and the customers needs at that point. I'm somewhere in the middle of that but could quite easily double it or better by going off shore or Middle East/Africa, but I have a youngish family and so that doesn't appeal to me (at the minute anyway ).

But H & S can be a very interesting career move. Many days I go home with a feeling of satisfaction that we've done something real to prevent people getting hurt. That of course does not include banning conkers, the village fete and Christmas Decorations...

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That's all very interesting, but the question on everybody's keyboards is

Are you the bloke off the telly?

[thelace]

That's all very interesting, but the question on everybody's keyboards is

Are you the bloke off the telly?

Nope

But I've met him

What can I say, it's still a very small industry