Now I have actually had quite a few emails via my website on this blog entry which I included here on MLF.
To set the record straight. The world of workplace safety or occupational safety, is indeed regulated by the HSE, this much just about everyone knows. As a Chartered Practitioner I am also regulated by my professional institution...IOSH (Institution of Occupational Safety & Health). This means like many other Chartered bodies I follow a strict code of conduct.
Now then; setting this aside for a moment. What I was trying to get at, and perhaps I may have mislead (unintentionally) is that anyone, I mean anyone can set themselves up as a 'competent' H&S adviser. I believe the same is true of HR (no doubt our newest member in this field will confirm).
So, if Joe Bloggs who once did some 'elf-n-safety' at work gets made redundant and decides to charge him/herself out at £150 a day - and reel out all sorts of spurious advice, there is nothing to stop them, cos we do be unregulated you see by law, unlike the FSA as a prime example.
Oh sure, Mr Bloggs will undoubtedly come a cropper one fine day and find him/hersef in a court of law being prosecuted for wrongful advice which in-turn led to the death of an operative where he happened to be advising. See how it starts to get serious now?
Yep, I do get miffed off about this, it took me around seven years of study and lordy knows how many hours worth of examinations and of course let's not forget the 20+ years of experience!
So there tis then. A trifle potted, but yee gets the gist methinks.
Mike... Chartered and darned proud of it. Scuse swelling mistakees, I'm on me nettybook.
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