Job Vacancy – H & S Manager – West Sussex
Jan 25th
Title: H&S manager
Location: West Sussex
Salary: Up to £40k
An exciting opportunity to join a leading food manufacturer. Newly created position, NEBOSH dip (or equivalent) and exposure to behavioural health and safety required.
For more information or to apply - Read more
Job Vacancy – EHS Manager – London
Jan 25th
Title: EHS Manager
Location: London
Salary: £40 – 50K
50/50 Environmental / Health and Safety split – Onsite consultancy at major Law firm.
For more information or to apply - Read more
Job Vacancy – Health Care & Safety Specialist – Home Based
Jan 25th
Title: Health Care & Safety Specialist
Location: Home Based
Salary: £40 – 50K
Must have a charity background and commercial / strategic past success
For more information or to apply – Read more
Job Vacancy – Head of HS&E – Kent
Jan 25th
Title: Head of HS&E
Location: Kent
Salary: Up to £45k
Clinical diagnostic organisation seek Graduate level or equivalent from a scientific discipline together with diploma level qualifications in Occupational Health and Safety and/or Environmental Management.
For more information or to apply – Read more
Job Vacancy – EHS Specialist – Oxford Based
Jan 25th
Title: EHS Specialist
Salary: £25680 - £32100 £25680 – £32100 (pro-rata)
Contract 6 – 9 Months. 20 hours per week.
Location: Oxford based
This is an exciting opportunity for an EHS professional to work for a Global FM provider on a specialist manufacturing site in Oxford.
For more information or to apply – Read more
Job Vacancy – Health and Safety Officer – London
Jan 25th
Title: Health and Safety officer
Location: London
Salary: c£17,900 + London Weighting + Shift Allowance
This is an excellent opportunity to join a world renowned airline company. Candidates must be NEBOSH qualified.
For more information or to apply – Read more
Health, Safety and Environmental Study Books – HSfB Recommends…
Jan 24th
We often get questions on the discussion forums about what’s the best books to buy for a particular course, so we have listed what’s most talked about on the forums as being the most useful.
The following link is to our new Amazon.co.uk affiliate book shop which allows you to buy direct from Amazon.co.uk at exactly the same prices as your normally would, the only difference being that HSfB will receive a small seller’s commission which will go towards keeping our site alive and kicking.
It would be very much appreciated if you could visit the shop and either buy from it, or at least let me know your feedback on how the shop could be improved.
It would also be great if you could let me know what books you think should be on the list and I’ll add them in.
HSfB Recommends… http://www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk/books.htm
Thanks very much 
Jail terms for health and safety test fraudsters – SHP
Jan 19th
Jail terms for health and safety test fraudsters
16 January 2012
Two men have been jailed for nine months each for taking health and safety tests on behalf of other construction workers.
Gurpreet Singh and Parampreet Singh both pleaded guilty to fraud at Luton Crown Court last week, after staff at the CITB-ConstructionSkills test centre in the town realised that they had taken multiple tests using several other people’s identification passes bearing their own photos.
Both men are foreign nationals and will be deported once they have served their sentences.
CITB-ConstructionSkills chief executive, Mark Farrar condemned the practice, saying: “I’m glad the vigilance of [our] staff caught and put a stop to this illegal activity. We support the industry by continually investigating test fraud, and we take it very seriously indeed.”
He added: “Proxy testing is self-defeating because it both endangers the lives of the people who solicit it and their colleagues on construction sites. Those who are found to be proxy testing will be reported to the Police and could face prosecution.”
The CITB confirmed that although the CPS did not take action against those who commissioned the tests from the Singhs, the parties have been identified as fraudulent, so their test results will be wiped from the system and they will not be allowed to take future tests.
Some 500,000 people a year take the CITB-ConstructionSkills health and safety test, which costs £17.50. Its aim is to raise standards across the industry by ensuring that workers have a minimum level of health, safety and environmental awareness before going on site.
In a similar case, eight people pleaded guilty to fraud at Nottingham Crown Court last week, after more than £500,000 was claimed from two colleges for health and safety training that never took place.
Castle College in Nottingham paid out £475,391 for 583 students who, it was told, had taken a customer services or health and safety course. North Warwickshire and Hinckley College handed over £27,108 for 249 students it believed had taken a health and safety course.
The eight people in the dock worked for training firms Training Options UK and FE Options, and for Castle College and were prosecuted following a three-year Police investigation.
For the full story, visit the BBC website here.
