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There is no typical day at work in my role as a Specialist Occupational Health Inspector. It is both varied and diverse and includes attending Court to provide Expert Opinion on criminal cases involving occupational ill health. 

I am often called on to provide specialist support to my general Inspector colleagues on occupational ill-health issues across a wide range of industries. There is a culture of mutual support between colleagues and a willingness to share information when called upon to do so.  My role is very rewarding and diverse, with no two days the same.  For instance,  I am also responsible for my own investigations, one of which led to a successful prosecution against a company that failed to control exposure to vibrating equipment,  thereby exposing its employees to ill health.  This has been the most challenging part of my role to date. 

As a nurse, it is  also very rewarding to work with employers and their employees in order to mitigate the risk of developing an occupational related disease by ensuring that the right control measures are in place. The nature of my role also requires me to complete the Regulatory Training Programme. This programme is underwritten by NEBOSH and required me to successfully complete the course.  It included a year long theory and practical training and I am very proud of the fact that I achieved an excellent grade in the Legal Examination component of the course.

Staff are only valued, developed, heard in certain parts of the business, if you are an inspector or in a relationship with an inspector, or working with inspectors you can expect to be treated (developed, promoted, engaged with) entirely more positively. 

This organisation values new members from outside the organisation far more than it does its dedicated existing staff (well they make for better engagement parameters and more positive responses in the peoples survey). 

It's all about box ticking. Engagement and consultation is largely fake. 

An organisation that unswervingly follows (moreover cites) the HR rules until it suits them to bend them (for a friend or to satisfy a quota of some description).

HSW in HSE is 'textbook' (not in a good way) rather than usefully tailored and driven by the personal ambition/profile building of those in that department rather than an appreciation of the actual need of the workforce.

This is probably the most interesting, influential and impressive role I have ever held, it comes with huge responsibilities.  The significance of the work is not appreciated by higher management and the comparative wage is ridiculously low. The recent change to the wage structure (Oct 24)  was an attempt to correct some of the imbalances however the changes were inconsistently applied and did not go far enough. The organisation values qualifications over experience however education is most definitely not a sign of intelligence. Many long serving staff and managers have never worked elsewhere and have little comprehension of real world employment. 

Incredibly supportive managers with a real focus on staff development
Performance related awards
25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days after 5 years of service; plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day.
Flexible working – great work/life balance
Highly competitive pension (21% employer contribution)
Cycle to work scheme
Childcare vouchers
And a range of other employee benefits

The opportunity to meet and work with professionals from a wide range of professions including, engineers, doctors, nurses, microbiologists, economists and lawyers, to name but a few

Accessing the RIDDOR data base to select and process the incidents which met our criteria, sorting and distributing the mail, collating information from our database to gather visits for the Inspectors, dealing with complaints from Duty Holders and Members of the Public, dealing with Gas Incidents and complaints.All general office duties, filing, faxing, photocopying, data inputting, Assisting my colleagues whenever they needed help. Having a varied and busy work load.

Most days are slow and boring. As for progression within roles it is hard to progress anywhere. The pay is bad and are unable to hire anyone new. Too many staff are undertrained and promotion is near impossible unless someone leaves, retires or dies and then they will still overlook current staff and hire outside or just leave the position vacant. 

there is no progression/promotion from one band to the next, to progress one has to apply to any suitable vacancies that are published. Your previous performance is not used as a measure during the recruitment process.... Also there is no incremental pay rises within the various bands... performance us not rewarded.

Review previous inspection ratings or receive an accident/incident notification. Inspect or investigate workplaces.

Health and safety legislation.

Professional and dedicated.

Dealing with injuries and fatalities.

Making a work place safer and prosecuting those who did not care about the workforce.

Management poor in concern team, low pay low resource it systems woeful good work life balance poor progression can use AI to complete application forms not based on persons performance of the job on interview moreso ticking boxes at interview biased management recruiting favourable staff members for promotion 

Lovely place to work, nice colleagues, flexible hours, relaxed atmosphere, pension and sick pay. Interesting work.. They really do look after you and have your best interests at heart. Lots of in house training courses. I worked there as an Administrator for fifteen years. I left 2015. Regret it to this day.

Top Job Titles	Average salary
Inspector 24 salaries reported	£39,535 per year
Scientist 4 salaries reported	£32,204 per year
Infrastructure engineer 14 salaries reported	£33,579 per year
Policy advisor 1 salary reported	£42,100 per year
Regulatory affairs lead 9 salaries reported	£43,786 per year

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