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Whether you are a business owner, manager, or simply an employee, workplace health and safety hazards should be a concern to you. Here are some things to keep in mind. A good place to start is to employ a health and safety officer. You can easily find such a person through a health and safety jobs agency. Health and safety officer jobs are highly sought after and are therefore easily filled. If you cannot employ someone to fill the health and safety officer job role, as an employer you should take this responsibility upon yourself, or dictate it to someone who has the maturity and capability to handle it.

Here are some hazards to watch out for: slippery and obstructed floors, dangerous chemicals, sharp objects, and contaminated air. Floors should be kept dry and free from objects as often as possible. When cleaning floors, make sure to put up caution signs. Check any carpets for tears, and be sure that small area rugs have grips to keep them from sliding. Keep dangerous chemicals and sharp objects and tools in their appropriate places at all times. Cleaning chemicals should be kept in a janitorial closet.

Tools should only be used by people trained to use them. To prevent dust, mold, and other air contaminants, be sure that air ducts and heating units are kept clean. Finally, be sure to regularly check for hazards. If you cannot do so yourself, employ someone through a health and safety vacancies agency to do so for you.

In a time when good jobs are few and far between, and interviews are very hard to get, you need a good CV to make you stand out from the crowd. This is especially true when applying for health and safety jobs because your specific skills may only be applicable to a certain sector of jobs. A health and safety CV also needs to be kept up-to-date.

Basic CV writing skills are a necessity. You format your CV carefully, or use a formatting template. Make sure you have used correct spelling and grammar throughout. One tiny mistake may imply that you don’t have attention to detail, a skill that is very important in getting a health and safety job.

Next, only include relevant material. There is no need to list every single job you have ever had, unless you have only had a few jobs. (However, don’t leave long gaps between jobs without explanations.)  If you are trying to promote yourself to a more advanced position or fill  more highly sought after health and safety vacancies you will need to provide very specific skills and transferable skills.

List any other relevant information. Perhaps you spent some time volunteering at a hospital years ago, or you spent a summer in India working with underprivileged children. Don’t assume that an interviewer will think to ask you about these things. Health and safety vacancies are easily snapped up by people who have the required skills, so you should tell potential employers everything that makes you a better candidate than the next person.

Generally, economies grow year on year, and in parallel so does industry, which means that the prevalence of manufacture etc looks set to increase. With this in mind, there will always be the need for health and safety jobs, as quite frankly without their expertise there would be chaos in the work-place.

In fact, to confound matters, not only is the industry growing, but with the rise of no win no fee compensation claims, businesses can be crippled by compensation claims – which nowadays are thriving. With this in mind, heath and safety jobs –  as well as providing an obvious practical function – are also your best protection against financial loss through compensation claims.

Whilst the role of health & safety jobs in providing a certain level of financial safety is an important one, the most important function of health and safety jobs is to protect people – the importance of this can’t be emphasized enough; and even though workplaces are incorporating more safety technology year on year, health and safety professionals –  and the guidance that they can communicate on a face to face basis – will be the most effective way to protect your employees for a long time to come.

With all this in mind, it is especially pertinent that you fill your health and safety jobs with the appropriate people, and in this regard OS Recruitment could be invaluable, able to match the specific criteria needed for your job to a massive database of registered candidates.

Whilst at OS recruitment we have a long and renowned history in filling health and safety vacancies, this is just one aspect of our impetus, and alongside our placement services, we also offer some additional services – such as fire risk assessments.

But what does our fire risk assessment involve? Well by choosing OS recruitment for your fire risk assessment, you are choosing wisely – as we use a thorough three stage process to ensure that your fire safety watertight.

Specifically, we will be able to identify particular areas of potential hazard, such as blocked passageways etc, and therefore provide you with the knowledge that you need to improve your fire safety; also, we will identify any people that are at risk, and therefore give you the knowledge that you need to assure the safety of your employees; and finally, we will advise you about improving your fire safety, and solving any potential areas of hazard.

Alongside our fire risk assessment services, we also offer COSHH identification & risk assessments which, briefly, will identify any areas of potential risk in regards to hazardous substances, and even advise your employees in regards to relevant safety information.

You might think that risk assessment has little to do with health and safety jobs, however it is in keeping with our holistic approach to filling health and safety vacancies – and a testament to the fact that even after the recruitment process we want to serve you and your staff – beyond filling health and safety jobs.