I would be very grateful if I could pick someone's brains with regards to health and safety courses and about career in general.
Thanks a lot.
I would be very grateful if I could pick someone's brains with regards to health and safety courses and about career in general.
Thanks a lot.
You want a career in H&S????
Why not just eat children??? its more socially acceptable..
Yes i have a lot of H&S crap to deal lol
Traffic Warden school full?
All you need is a hi vis, clipboard and smug condescending manner
Originally Posted by silverzx
No, but I write and manage systems for them and deal with them regularly. You don't want to do it.
Definitely in the same boat as traffic wardens!
I do know that you can earn a lot of money doing it though - at least in the construction industry.
OWell I'm just looking at where to take my career next.
I'm currently 7 years in the RAF as an aircraft engineer, fully qualified aircraft engineer (un-licensed), Iv been doing a fair few management qualifications as well as a lot of Rolls Royce quals as for the past 3 years Iv worked in the engine bay and specilise in gas turbine engines. Getting a it bored of life living away from home now, and looking at a suitable career for my future.
Health and safety popped up as I deal with it pretty much every day and the RAF will pay for me to do my qualifications such as NEBOSH etc.
so do people think it's not a good career to get in? The money attracted me (management levels roughly 50-70k plus benefits) and the fact it's a 9-5
Iv also looked at contracting, doing gas turbine strips and boroscopes, but all that seems to be 4 weeks on, 4 weeks off. Does anyone have experience with that?
You'll have to work up to that though, you'll probably be on a lot lower to start and (personally) I think it would be a pretty boring job
You'd need the 50k-70k due to the psychological stress from everyone you meet hating you...
Job at Rolls Royce?
Switch to Automotive?
Why not go work on jumbo's? They use the RR engines?
Airbus or Boeing?
I realise I won't get that straight away but jobs seem to be starting between 40-50 for someone fully qualified.
Is there any money in cars? I'm also a fully qualified motor vehicle technition and stopped that because of the future prospects
To make any decent money In the aircraft industry you have to be lisensed, you can work un-lisensed but you will have to be a conny to make half decent money and I don't want to do that for the rest of my life.
My old man is a fully lisensed engineer for Monarch, the aline industry is in the shit and my dad has just took a 25% pay cut. He's not happy with the Industry and I do t think I want to get involved in that.
I thought about H&S as its going to be around forever and is only going to get bigger. It just seemed like a easy relatively stress free career path, with a good wedge of money. I'm not really bothered if people at work don't like me, as long as I'm happy.
Holy christ, i never realised how bad the industry was?! That's horrendously large for a paycut!!
And, i didnt mean your colleagues!..Its the customers who wont. Whenever H&S are around me cabling i just want to strangle them with my reel of cable.
Serious suggestion - get NEBOSH and then retrain as a risk control surveyor in insurance industry.
Iv already got a risk assessment course booked with the RAF Arry, do you have any experience with the field. I only signed onto the course as I thought it would look good on my cv and it was free.
Also there are lots of NEBOSH courses, industrial, environmental etc. which would be the best course, or area to get into?
Occupational H&S - Industrial. Environmental is becoming more prominent due to Environmental Impairment Liability becoming more widely sought but I'd stick with the basics first. Think small to medium size business enterprise.
Seriously though - great job. Free to run your own appointment schedule, company car with mileage, home based, decent wage.
That's exactly what I'm thinking Arry, im not really fussed what I do. I just saw health and safety as a decent career.
I know I can go contracting on rigs or gas turbines etc, all over the world and earn really good money. But even tho I'm young, the 4 weeks on 4 off shift pattern puts me off as I want to start a life In one place now.
I'm just after a career path for me that would be relatively easy to get into and earn good money. As it stands at the moment, at my current posting in the RAF my main secondary duty is POL (petroleum oils and lubricants) this includes the disposel of these to, so maybe enviromentle wouldn't be a bad side to go into.
I do a lot of contract work for General Electric on Gas Turbines. The safety in the UK is the strictest in the world but the points are solid, they follow it to a T. A lot of people mock it but at the end of the day they've given you an excuse to question absolutely anything and if you don't think its safe you simply don't have to do it until it is no matter the time scale.
Most people do not realise its actually against the law to breach it anywhere its enforced.
Even in the middle east though the health and safety guys are usually British. I know they are on good money to not have to do any of the hands on work, just paper work stuff. They appear for 5-10 mins every couple of hours then go back to their desk.
Corporate manslaughter has been reformed and directors can now be prosecuted for serious injury as well as death. Too right it's serious
I think Arry is onto something.
H&S as a career is mocked because in the average office they split their time between telling people they can't plug their fans/heaters into the office sockets because they not been safety checked and adjusting the seats of idiots who can't get comfy without help
If you went into an industry where safety is critical to customers and staff and took a sensible and pragmatic approach to non-critical safety issues, I'm sure you'd be fine.
However, I do think Arry has a good idea for you in insurance. Its well paid, requires specialist skills and could be intellectually challenging. Its a niche market so you'd probably need to be prepared to relocate to further your career on occasion (once or twice in a ten year stretch) but that isn't the same as block work or constant travelling.
If you get a job with an OEM or engineering consultancy like Ricardo, MIRA, Tickford, Prodrive etc then yesEngineering staff should be earning 40-50k basic, management 70k+ and a car.
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